Capture The Flag - in space

[Dr Mordrid]

Last Friday President Obama called the crews of the Shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station from the Oval Office. During his call to the ISS crew he mentioned that a very special American flag was on board Atlantis - a flag that had previously been carried aboard Columbia during STS-1, the first Shuttle flight. This flag will be left on board the ISS until the next NASA crew is launched from US soil aboard a commercial spacecraft.

President Obama 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...."

The game is afoot