Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!qantel!hplabs!nsc!decwrl!fisher@wsgate.DEC (Burns Fisher, MRO3-1/E13, DTN 231-4108.) From: fisher@wsgate.DEC (Burns Fisher, MRO3-1/E13, DTN 231-4108.) Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Apollo Flag Message-ID: <564@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 13:30:21 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.564 Posted: Tue Sep 24 13:30:21 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 05:33:31 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 24 >Is there evidence of the flag falling over at any Apollo site? I am reasonably sure I have read that the astronauts saw it go over during the A-11 LM liftoff. This might have been in Collins' CARRYING THE FIRE. I think the other books I have read (NASA's APOLLO MISSIONS TO THE MOON and FIRST ON THE MOON by the A-11 astros) were to straight-laced to have had that info. In any case, the way I recall it, Armstrong and Aldrin had *lots* of trouble getting the flag stuck into the lunar soil, and when they did get it, they were still afraid that it might tumble over while they were on live TV to billions. I don't recall that the others had so much trouble. And starting with A-15 (or was it 14?) they did have the rover camera which could be panned around my remote control from earth. Except that the first one had some trouble with its panning, so they did not dare slew it around too fast and follow the lunar module's takeoff. Burns UUCP: ... {decvax|allegra|ucbvax}!decwrl!rhea!dvinci!fisher ARPA: fisher%dvinci.dec@decwrl.ARPA