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President Obama Announces "Capture the Flag" in Space

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
July 15, 2011
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Keith’s note: On Friday President Obama will call the crews of the Space Shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station from the Oval Office starting at 12:29 pm EDT.
Keith’s update: 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.

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