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Topic: Stars and space: NASA and the 50-star U.S. flag

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by Robert Pearlman on 07-04-2010 02:26 PM collectSPACE: [URL=http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-070410a.html]Stars, stripes and space: NASA and the 50 star American flag[/URL] <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]Fifty years ago Sunday, on Independence Day 1960, the United States officially adopted use of the 50-star American flag, increasing the star-count by one to recognize Hawaii's statehood. This, the 27th update to the star-spangled banner, became the U.S. flag to be longest used and the only one to represent the nation in space. Despite having launched satellites for two-and-a-half years prior to the 50-star flag being unfurled, the country's first flag did not enter space until nearly a year after the banner was introduced.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE>
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