The American flags on the moon are disintegrating

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This article first appeared in Business Insider.

The photos have stood the test of time: A spacesuit-clad Apollo astronaut stands proudly next to a red-white-and-blue American flag, his national trophy telling the lonely world “the United States was here.”

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