The flag was updated in 1973 to feature The Blue Marble, a photo of Earth taken by the Apollo 17 crew during their trip to the moon on December 7, 1972. Earth Day was needed even back in the 1950s ...

The current plan calls for Resilience to land that day at 3:24 p.m. EST (2024 GMT ... which also sent Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander into the final frontier. Blue Ghost aced its ...