<P> The flags deployed on the last three landing flights were carried in the Modular Equipment Stowage Assembly (MESA, an equipment drawer which opened from the side of the Lunar Module) rather than on the ladder . This eliminated the need for the thermal protection shroud . </P> <P> The flag which had hung in the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in the Mission Control Center through all the prior Apollo landings was flown to the Moon for the final mission, Apollo 17 . This flag measured 20% wider and higher than the others, therefore it required a 6 - foot (1.8 m) long horizontal pole . Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt carried a second, identical flag to the Moon and back, and presented it to flight controller Gene Kranz after the flight to replace the one left on the Moon . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Mission </Th> <Th> Date </Th> <Th> Location </Th> <Th> Erected by </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Apollo 11 </Td> <Td> July 21, 1969 </Td> <Td> Sea of Tranquility </Td> <Td> Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Apollo 12 </Td> <Td> November 19, 1969 </Td> <Td> Ocean of Storms </Td> <Td> Charles "Pete" Conrad Alan Bean </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Apollo 14 </Td> <Td> February 5, 1971 </Td> <Td> Fra Mauro formation </Td> <Td> Alan Shepard Edgar Mitchell </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Apollo 15 </Td> <Td> August 1, 1971 </Td> <Td> Hadley--Apennine </Td> <Td> David Scott James Irwin </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Apollo 16 </Td> <Td> April 21, 1972 </Td> <Td> Descartes Highlands </Td> <Td> John Young Charles Duke </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Apollo 17 </Td> <Td> December 11, 1972 </Td> <Td> Taurus--Littrow </Td> <Td> Eugene Cernan Harrison Schmitt </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> Mission </Th> <Th> Date </Th> <Th> Location </Th> <Th> Erected by </Th> </Tr>

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