NASA's Overlooked Duty

"NASA brought six flags to the moon, on poles outfitted with horizontal crossbars so that the stars and stripes would show, as though caught in a nonexistent breeze. The flags are still there, but radiation is presumed to have left them in tatters—monuments to our love of Earth, or maybe just litter."

--"NASA's Overlooked Duty to Look Inward" by Elisa Gabbert, the New Yorker