Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
collectSPACE.com — A large, 3-by-5-foot (0.9-by-1.5-meter) U.S. flag is in the Artemis II Official Flight Kit (OFK). It was prepared like at least seven others to be deployed on the lunar surface until its mission, Apollo 18, was canceled due to budget cuts. The banner was instead put on display at NASA Headquarters in Washington until recently, when it was taken off exhibit to make its premiere flight to the moon on Artemis.
Read more: collectspace.com/news/news-012226a-artemis-2-official-flight-kit-ofk.html
collectSPACE.com — A large, 3-by-5-foot (0.9-by-1.5-meter) U.S. flag is in the Artemis II Official Flight Kit (OFK). It was prepared like at least seven others to be deployed on the lunar surface until its mission, Apollo 18, was canceled due to budget cuts. The banner was instead put on display at NASA Headquarters in Washington until recently, when it was taken off exhibit to make its premiere flight to the moon on Artemis.
Read more: collectspace.com/news/news-012226a-artemis-2-official-flight-kit-ofk.html



![[STS-135 Flight Day Journal] Flight Day 13 Recap
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A video recap of flight day 13 of the STS-135 mission of space shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station.
Video: NASA [STS-135 Flight Day Journal] Flight Day 13 Recap](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JUBHr0kHMI4/mqdefault.jpg)



![Pioneer Plaque: A Message from Earth
http://collectSPACE.com — A creative director obsessed with design and space exploration has launched a campaign to bring a galactic greeting card from billions of miles out into space back to Earth — by producing and offering exact replicas.
Forty-five years ago, NASA launched Pioneer 10, the first probe to encounter Jupiter and to achieve escape velocity from our solar system. Mounted to its antenna support was a gold anodized aluminum plaque that was engraved with a little bit of where we are, when we are and who we are, according to the late Carl Sagan, who helped to create the plaque on the off chance that another space-faring society were to someday come across the derelict probe.
[It] was quite possibly the most ambitious piece of visual communication ever conceived, said Duane King, as part of his Kickstarter campaign. And now I am bringing it back to Earth.
Continue reading: http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-051717a-pioneer-plaque-replica-kickstarter.html
Video credit: Duane King. Used with permission. Pioneer Plaque: A Message from Earth](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KYtdQ8sA7Ao/mqdefault.jpg)


