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[i]The flag was found by Lauren Meyers, the archivist at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, after the contents of the time capsule were submerged in clean water to begin their conservation. "That is probably better preserved than most anything else in here," said Jim Johnson with the Freeman Library. The flag was accompanied by a letter in astronaut Charles Conrad's handwriting that stated: "This American flag was carried aboard Gemini V, 21-29 August 1965, for 120 revolutions of the Earth."[/i]
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