President Obama: Playing Capture The Flag In Outer Space
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During his call to the orbiting Space Shuttle Atlantis and International Space Station crews today, President Obama mentioned that a special American Flag had been carried to orbit on board Atlantis – a flag that had been carried aboard Columbia during STS-1.
According to STS-135 Commander Chris Ferguson, this flag will be left on board the ISS until the next crew of Americans is launched from American soil aboard a commercial spacecraft. The President joked that this is going to become sort of a “capture the flag” game for the commercial spaceflight industry.
Shortly thereafter SpaceX tweeted “SpaceX commencing flag capturing sequence…”
And thus the game begins.
