re: Apparently there is an AU flag on the moon?

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Auburn lore maintains that one of those colleagues — John W. Young and Charlie Duke — deposited a flag on the lunar surface. A flag-bearing T-shirt commemorating Mattingly’s voyage, once sold in Auburn-area stores, has been marketed thusly. But myth may have blended with fact, and the consensus is that all flags stayed confined to the capsule. Asked if a flag found its way to the moon, Mattingly, 74, said by phone, “I have no way of answering that question.” Neither Young nor Duke could be reached.

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