Houston's new home uniforms feature Deep Steel Blue jerseys and helmets along with white pants, white numbers and red trim, while the away set includes white jerseys, red trim and Deep Steel Blue pants, helmets and numbers. The home, away and red alternate uniforms each include "H-TOWN" in light blue on the inside of the jersey collar.

"Let's create something for everyone," Texans chairman and CEO Cal McNair is quoted as saying on the team website, a reference to the objective of the new uniforms.

Platoff notes in her report that the legal status of the moon clearly would not be affected by the presence of a U.S. flag on the lunar surface, "but NASA was aware of the international controversy that might occur as a result."

The Texans team shop at NRG Stadium is open from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday and from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. The new uniforms also can be purchased online at shop.houstontexans.com and at a pop-up event scheduled for 1-8 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday on the Avenida Plaza outside the George R. Brown Convention Center.

"Just beneath the powdery surface, the subsoil was very dense," Aldrin recalled. "We succeeded in pushing the flagpole in only a couple of inches. It didn't look very sturdy."

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The lunar flags are likely to have become brittle and may have disintegrated over time. Yet another damaging threat to the lunar flags is bombardment by moon-mean meteoroid impacts, Platoff concludes.

Even if the flags have remained standing when crews rocketed off the moon, it is almost certain that they are not in the same condition as when they were first deployed on the lunar surface.

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But that seminal event in vexillological history was not without a lot of debate, discussion and early worries that were run up the policy flagpole about "who owns the moon?" (Vexillology is the study of the history, symbolism and usage of flags.)

As Platoff writes in her 2011 research paper, "Six Flags over Luna: The Role of Flags in Moon Landing Conspiracy Theories," whether the flags have remained standing or have endured decades of exposure to the harsh lunar environment, "their legacy as a symbol of the human exploration of space remains intact."

Furthermore, the Apollo 17 flag planted in December 1972, the program's last moon mission, was uniquely noteworthy; that flag had been displayed in the Mission Operations Control Room during the other Apollo missions, and then emplaced on the moon by the last moonwalking crew, Eugene Cernan and Jack Schmitt.

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People who deny that the Apollo moon landings occurred, Platoff concludes, "are free to believe what they want, but that doesn't make them right."

In carrying out her research, Platoff found that the six flags placed on the moon by Apollo moonwalkers were not all the same size.

In the early 1990s, Anne Platoff, then working with Hernandez Engineering Inc. in Houston, Texas put together a NASA contractor report titled, "Where No Flag Has Gone Before: Political and Technical Aspects of Placing a Flag on the Moon."

The first overhaul of the Texans' uniforms since the team debuted in 2002 – six years after the Oilers relocated to Tennessee and eventually changed their name to the Titans – also include new regular home and away sets and a predominantly red alternate uniform dubbed by the team as "The Bold Bull." It features a new take on the Texans' logo on the helmet as well as dark blue numbers, in a shade the Texans' call "Deep Steel Blue," along with white trim.

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"H-Town Blue," which is similar to the light blue color used by the former Houston Oilers, is most prominent in the special "City Edition" uniform. It was one of four new uniforms released Tuesday by the Houston Texans.

"Do you really think it would be possible to maintain the level of cooperation from everyone involved in the Apollo Program to maintain the hoax for fifty-five years? Or is it more plausible that people working together were able to harness the power of science and technology to achieve the goal of landing astronauts on the moon and bringing them home safely?"

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After multiple leaks and months of hype, the uniforms were revealed ahead of a much-anticipated 2024 season for the Texans, who are coming off an AFC South Division championship and first-round playoff win under rookie head coach DeMeco Ryans. Last year's team also had the NFL's Offensive Rookie of the Year in quarterback C.J. Stroud and Defensive Rookie of the Year in defensive lineman Will Anderson.

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Aldrin also described what it was like when he and Armstrong were able to put up the flag, a pennant that was purchased locally in Houston for $5.50.

The Texans' new away uniforms feature the same helmet as the home set while essentially flipping the colors of the jerseys and pants. The jerseys are white with red letters, red trim and dark blue letters. There also is a bullhorn design on the sleeves in the dark blue color.

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"Refuting the moon landing hoax conspiracies is not difficult to do," Platoff explained to Space.com. "There is plenty of evidence out there to prove that the Apollo landings were real and that human beings have walked on the lunar surface."

Clearly, the significance of these images, said Platoff, "will endure long after the deaths of those who participated in this historic undertaking."

The Texans also are calling this their "Color Rush Uniform" as it features the new H-Town Blue color, which is being introduced as an official accent color of the team. In addition to the light blue, stylized "H" being on the helmet and back of the jersey, the jersey also includes the Texans' traditional bull head logo outlined in the light blue color. Above the numbers on the front of the jersey is "H-TOWN" in the same shade of light blue.

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The "H" logo is the first new secondary logo introduced on a helmet in NFL history, according to the Texans. The helmet is otherwise a metallic-looking Deep Steel Blue color that almost appears black, and also features a small star in the team's traditional "Battle Red" color.

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"Nevertheless, there were domestic and international debates over the appropriateness of the event," Platoff explains. Congress amended NASA's appropriations bill to prevent the space agency from unfurling flags of other nations, or those of international associations on the moon during missions funded solely by the United States.

The color rush uniform features a stylized "H" beveled in two shades of light blue on the helmet, in addition to light blue trim on the jersey. The "City Edition" uniform is otherwise a dark shade of blue with red numbers.

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This alternate uniform is heavy on the red – the prominent color of the helmet, jersey and pants. A new bullhorn-inspired logo appears on both the helmet and shoulders, in the deep steel blue color, which also is used for the jersey number. The jersey also features white letters and trim, and the helmet includes a red metallic chrome facemask.

This is what the Texans are calling their new home uniforms, which feature a dark "Deep Steel Blue" color that matches the team's original look unveiled in 2000. It's the color of the jersey and helmet, which both include the Texans' traditional bull head logo. A red version of the new stylized "H" logo is on the back of the helmet.

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"They designed a flagpole with a horizontal bar allowing the flag to 'fly' without the benefit of wind to overcome the effects of the moon's lack of an atmosphere. Other factors considered in the design were weight, heat resistance, and ease of assembly by astronauts whose space suits restricted their range of movement and ability to grasp items," Platoff explains.

What's not known is the condition of those flags today. Even if the flags have remained standing when crews rocketed off the moon, it is almost certain that they are not in the same condition as when they were first deployed on the lunar surface. "Most likely the nylon of the flag has degraded as the result of prolonged exposure to sunlight," Platoff senses, a destructive outcome that's tagged "sun rot."

Matthew Ward is a senior lecturer in history at the University of Dundee in Scotland. He notes that the American flag is distinctively powerful and seems to be present in the imagery of almost every key event in American history, from Apollo moon landings to firefighters raising the flag over the ruins of the World Trade Center on 9/11 in 2001. "It is difficult to think of any other flag that's so heavily invested in meaning. The Stars and Stripes expresses the spirit, history and identity of an entire nation," Ward points out.

The Texans are hosting an invitation-only party celebrating the new uniforms on Tuesday night, when Grammy Award winner Lecrae and fellow Houston native Paul Wall will be among the musical acts. Meanwhile, fans can get their hands on the new gear starting Tuesday morning.

The pop-up shop on the Avenida Plaza also will be open to fans from 1-10 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday. Friday's event coincides with the Texans' NFL Draft watch party starting at 5 p.m.

Apollo 11's Buzz Aldrin later recounted in an article written for Life magazine that as he looked at the flag, the moonwalker sensed an "almost mystical unification of all people in the world at that moment."

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Platoff explains that Apollo 11's flag-raising on the moon was strictly a symbolic activity. Given that the United States was a signatory to the United Nations Treaty on Outer Space, inking that treaty precluded any territorial claim to the moon.

"One thing that I keep seeing in articles is that the flags would be bleached white from exposure to sunlight. 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.

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55 years ago today, Apollo 11's flag raising on the ancient lunar surface took all of 10 minutes during Neil Armstrong's and Buzz Aldrin's two-and-a-half hour moonwalking adventure in July 1969.