The homemade flag carried by Lanphier High School students during their march to the Illinois State Capitol on the first Earth Day. Mitch Feinberg Early in 1970 at Lanphier High School in ...

While this does happen to some flags on Earth, I am not sure about the chemical process involved and if that would occur in a lunar environment," Platoff tells Space.com.

The container will be transferred to a reentry capsule that is due to return to Earth in the deserts of China's Inner Mongolia region about June 25. The small flag, which the agency said was made ...