The Lunar Reconnassance Orbiter, currently orbiting the Moon just 50 km off the surface, has taken more shots of the Apollo 17 landing site… and has seen the actual U.S. flag!

(Here is a wider shot of the landing site)

So far all of the landing sites that the LRO has photographed have had tracks around them, and this one has the flag right where it should be. I’d say that lunar landing conspiracy theorists can officially suck it.

h/t to Phil Plait.

Coincidentally, here is Eugene Cernan the Apollo 17 commander and the last man to walk on the Moon on Fox News reacting the NASA’s Ares I-X test flight: