Why You Should Be Happy About China’s Historic Moon Landing

There is a perfectly wonderful map on a playful Facebook cartography page. It shows all of the countries in the world, with a two-color key underneath. Red indicates "countries with moon on the flag." There are thirteen of them. Blue indicates "countries with flag on the moon." There is only one: the United States.

It's hard not to get a patriotic thrill from that—even if it was never technically true. The U.S.

There is a perfectly wonderful map on a playful Facebook cartography page. It shows all of the countries in the world, with a two-color key underneath. Red indicates "countries with moon on the flag." There are thirteen of them. Blue indicates "countries with flag on the moon." There is only one: the United States. It's hard not to get a patriotic thrill from that—even if it was never technically true. The U.S.