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skeith2011 t1_irxzob2 wrote

Reply to comment by RoterFuchs1994 in Museum shows off Taiwan flag which went to the moon on Apollo 11 by Pure_Candidate_3831

So a cotton shirt weighs about 5oz on average, which is 0.3125 pounds. Let’s say that the flag would take only 20% (i.e. 1 shirt makes 5 flags) of the shirt fabric to make one, which gives 0.0625 pounds.

In 1969 when Apollo 11 launched, there were 126 nations in the UN. Adding the 50 states gives a total amount of 176 flags on board the spacecraft.

176 flags times 0.0625 pounds per flag gives 11 pounds total. Kind of a negligible amount.

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