Artifact: Argentine flag flown aboard the International Space Station
Materials: nylon.
Dimensions: 10 x 17 cm.
Launch date: September 11, 2024

Landing date: April 20, 2025 

Program: Soyuz MS-26 / ISS-71 / ISS-72
Flown Status: yes.

The Argentine flag floating inside the ISS' Cuppola. In the background two Soyuz spacecrafts. Image taken on April 17, 2025. Courtesy of Cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin.

Description: This flag traveled to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-26 mission, launched on September 11, 2024, and returned to Earth on April 20, 2025, after spending 220 days in space. It is signed by cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin and bears the official seal of the Russian Orbital Segment (ROS).

Item: Argentine flag carried to the Moon aboard Apollo 15.
Size: 15.5 x 10.4 cm.

Mission: Apollo 15

Launch date: July 26, 1971.

Landing date: August 7, 1971.

Description: this flag from Argentina was carried to the Moon aboard Apollo 15 in the spacecraft Endeavour. It remained in the Command Module during the lunar orbit phase of the flight.

Apollo 15 was the fourth manned lunar landing mission, carrying for the first time a lunar rover and a Scientific Instrument Bay in the Service Module. The flight was launched on July 26 and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on August 7, 1971, logging flight time of 295.2 hours and a distance of over 1.4 million miles. Dave Scott and Jim Irwin explored the region of Hadley Rille for three days while Alfred M. Worden conducted experiments in orbit. On the return to Earth, Worden performed a 38 minute Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) to recover film that had been exposed during the flight.

The flag is signed and inscribed "Flown to the Moon on Apollo 15 Al Worden CMP" by NASA Astronaut Al Worden. It comes with two certificates of authenticity. One from Nate D. Sanders Auctions, and the other from astronaut Al Worden.

Al Worden Certificate of Authenticity

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Flown flags carried in the astronaut's PPKs