We revisit the idea of not planting a country's flag on the moon.
What would be a nice flag representing the whole earth? Obviously a depiction of our planet, but there's the standard problem of map projection onto a flat flag.
Easy solution: Don't plant a flag, but instead a globe hanging from a pole. Design this. There is a mechanical challenge of designing a globe that would have fit in the Apollo lunar lander, something that stores compactly but is easily assembled into 3D. "Inflatable" probably does not work so well in the vacuum of the moon.
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