So the design included not just an upright pole but a perpendicular extension like a shower curtain rod, so the flag could hang fully unfurled, all its stars and stripes showing. Now China ...

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Create Account Now China, which has plans to put its own astronauts on the moon in the near future, is planning to one-up its American counterparts with a flag that will actually flutter and wave.