As a follow - up to Stacy ’s nifty tilt offlag facts , Â enjoy this six - pack of stories ( one for each white stripe ) about famous American banners fly around the populace . glad Flag Day , everyone !
We Own the Moon!
Few image are as iconic as that of Neil Armstrong implant the U.S. flagstone into the lunar soil when man first landed on the Moon on July 20 , 1969 . The identity of the mortal who actually craft the flag , however ,  is disputed . According to some newspaper publisher account , seamstress Dolores Black call to have stitch it while working for " the commonwealth ’s large flag manufacturer " in Milwaukee . Black tell her genus Bos border on her a calendar month before the Apollo 11 ’s launch , saying he ’d been touch by NASA about sewing a especial flag , and he assigned Black , his aged sempstress to the task . However , an official NASA wardrobe press release date July 3 , 1969 , the masthead aim to the Moon had been purchased from Sears and retro - fitted with the special aluminium stave and crossbar tube . Annin & Company , which was the largest flagstone producer in the U.S. at the sentence - and which does not have a industrial plant in Milwaukee - was the provider of flags to the Sears department store chain . Even if the next set of astronaut to land on the Moon located the flag ( which Buzz Aldrin says bumble over in the rocket eruption when the squad left the Moon ) , 40 years of being exposed to the Sun ’s radical - violet rays would have most likely bleached away not only the stars and stripe , but also the signature Black says she left underneath the webbing .
Great Big Stars
One, Two, Three, Lift!
Ever Forward
Doing the Dip
In Memorium
