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Originally Posted by The Rusty Lander
It use to be that the reason for the waving was because there was a pully system that had deliberately been put into the flag to make it wave for show
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Don't think I've ever heard that explanation before and I can find nothing on Google from past or present mentioning it either. The only explanation I've ever heard is the usual lack of air resistance on the moon due to no atmosphere. Do you have any references you could share as I'm interested in the explanation?
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Originally Posted by The Rusty Lander
And the real possiblity that Russia did not in fact have a tracking satellite up until 1972. Russia had no intention of telling the Americans that but the Americans knew anyway
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Do you have any information regarding their lack of satellite tracking? I can recall reading several Venera pages mentioning that they used 'Soviet satellite tracking stations' to track it until they lost contact with it (1961).
Russia was also not the only country to track Apollo to the Moon. Jodrell Bank in England also tracked (and recorded) everything down to the descent of the Lunar Module.