Posted on 12/06/2020 7:42:39 AM PST by SeekAndFind
An unmanned Chinese moon lander is on its way back to earth after collecting several pounds of moon rocks and leaving behind something to remember them by.
A Chinese Communist flag.
On the way home! #ChangE5 blasted off from the #moon with the lunar samples.
Have a safe journey home! pic.twitter.com/54PJSd4CjP
— Hua Chunying 华春莹 (@SpokespersonCHN) December 4, 2020
#Chinese national flag on the moon now. pic.twitter.com/Jv7gN3ytw1
— Rita Bai Yunyi (@RitaBai) December 4, 2020
Well, at least it’s not the hammer and sickle.
And I don’t think there are too many questioning whether the commie flag is sitting on a soundstage in Hollywood.
If there is no wind on the moon why is the US flag flaring like that? Photo taken from BBC @NASAMoon pic.twitter.com/pr1xTIeRpP
— Mikael Shik (@mikeshik7) December 4, 2020
China becomes the third nation to have landed a spacecraft on the moon and carried back samples of moon rocks. In addition to the U.S., the Soviet Union had a successful sample-return mission in 1972.
Chang’e 5’s unmanned mission was the latest in a series that comprises the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program. Departing with a load of lunar rocks, the mission represented the first time a spacecraft tried to return moon samples since the Soviet Union did it in the 1970s.
NASA Associate Administrator Thomas Zurbuchen congratulated China on its landing which took place Tuesday.
“Congratulations to China on the successful landing of Chang’e 5,” Zubuchen tweeted.
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wont be long until it’s planted on the WH lawn
That’s a soundstage.
What’s funny is were we to land on the moon today, I ddo not believe the US would place a flag.
Stanley Kubrick is secretly still alive?
It's a fact that we wouldn't. Probably would be the UN Flag.
I’m not so sure. They have access to all the SpaceX technology thru Musk.
WOW!!! Only 51 yrs after we actually put a man on the moon they manage to plant a flag.
Better late than never (even if they stole the technology).
lol...
Now WHICH flag we would plant is a matter of debate.
Why would you carry all the mass of that post and finial to the moon?
Elon Musk should send a rocket up there, blow it up and replace it with a Jolly Roger.
It's a fact that we wouldn't. Probably would be the UN Flag.
I think it would be safe to assume as of January 20th, 2021 the United States will scuttle any plans for Americans to return to the moon.
100% true.
Absolutely.
They didn’t actually go to the moon. Look, the flag is straight and everyone knows there’s no wind on the moon. Staged in Hollywood to lie to the world.
⬆️ Sarcasm of course. It’s said, 1 in 10 Americans don’t believe we landed on the moon. China didn’t put men on the moon, by they could have.
That does seem odd. It looks like a mailbox post.
So you’re saying it’s computer generated?! :p
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