Did you know that once Apollo 11's Eagle module had touched down,
it was over 6 1/2 hours before Armstrong emerged and made history.
estimated that one billion people on planet Earth watched Armstrong step from the lander
onto the surface of another world
How many of you reading this thread remember the momentous occasion? Reruns don't count!
It was my brother's 4th birthday that day; I was about to turn 6.
I saw the landing and stayed up (8 PM!) to see Armstrong's moon walk.
It was the most exciting thing I'd ever seen.
And I just KNOW the tinfoil crowd will point to that flag and say,
"Hey! That flag is WAVING! Proof they filmed this on a studio backlot!"
Fox TV and the Apollo Moon Hoax.
From that web page: The answer is, it isn't waving. It looks like that because of the way the flag was deployed. The flag hangs from a horizontal rod which telescopes out from the vertical one. In Apollo 11, they couldn't get the rod to extend completely, so the flag didn't get stretched fully. It has a ripple in it, like a curtain that is not fully closed. In later flights, the astronauts didn't fully deploy it on purpose because they liked the way it looked. In other words, the flag looks like it is waving because the astronauts wanted it to look that way. Ironically, they did their job too well. It appears to have fooled a lot of people into thinking it waved.
All the rest of the info needed to debunk tinfoil "moon hoax" theories can be found there.
Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy is a website dedicated to correcting misconceptions, demonstrating "bad astronomy" in movies, and generally trying to separate fact from fiction; hard evidence from hearsay.
Should anyone try to claim the moon, show them this picture. That's the American flag. Not the Chinese flag, not the Russian flag, not the British flag. Not the UN flag.