American Flag on the Moon

I love flags and they are central to my designs, so I had to share this video footage, as it shows the American flag waving on the moon !

My daughter asked me if I had ever been in outer space and that led to a conversation about space travel and how her grandparents were teenagers when the first person walked on the moon.  That prompted me to look up footage on YouTube, and voila…. I wasn’t even born when this happened, but the significance of the event wasn’t lost on me.  Just amazing to watch this, so I hope you’ll take a few minutes.

My most poignant memory of the space program is, sadly, the Challenger accident. I was a 7th grader and I must’ve watched the explosion dozens of times on TV.  In my childhood, space travel was a given, and then this tragedy happened. I think for my parents it must’ve been a huge deal to grow up hearing plans for human space travel, then see it finally happen!