When the USA first sent astronauts to the Moon on Apollo 11, they wanted to plant an American flag on the surface. The ...

China’s Chang’e 6 mission even carried a flag made of basalt ... which returned striking images of several astronauts saluting the stars and stripes on the lunar surface.

The Chinese badminton star held up a miniature Spain flag on the podium He Bing Jiao claimed silver in the women's badminton ...

So the design included not just an upright pole but a perpendicular extension like a shower curtain rod, so the flag could hang fully unfurled, all its stars and stripes showing. Now China ...