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What became of the flags Apollo astronauts left on the moon?
55 years ago today, Apollo 11's flag raising on the ancient lunar surface took all of 10 minutes during Neil Armstrong's and Buzz Aldrin's two-and-a-half hour moonwalking adventure in July 1969. But that seminal event in vexillological history …