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The Claim

The national flag of Ghana was carried aboard a space shuttle mission.

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The Short Version

No available evidence supports the specific claim that Ghana's national flag was carried aboard a Space Shuttle mission. The only documented instance of Ghana's flag in space is tied to Christina Koch's 2019 International Space Station mission — which launched on a Soyuz spacecraft, years after the Space Shuttle Program ended in 2011. Shuttle-focused flag studies and NASA records in the evidence pool do not mention Ghana's flag on any shuttle flight.

Caveats

  • The Space Shuttle Program ended in 2011; the confirmed Ghana-flag-in-space event occurred in 2019 aboard the ISS via a Soyuz spacecraft, not a shuttle.
  • No shuttle flight manifest, crew personal preference kit (PPK) inventory, or NASA primary record in the available evidence documents a Ghana flag on any shuttle mission.
  • General evidence that foreign flags were carried on NASA missions does not establish that Ghana's flag specifically flew on a Space Shuttle.

The Receipts

  1. A Shuttle Full of Flags: Use of Flags in the Space Shuttle Program - eScholarship.org

    eScholarship.org

  2. Use of Flags in the Space Shuttle Program

    souvenirsofspace.com

  3. NASA Symbols and Flags in the U.S. Manned Space Program - eScholarship.org

    eScholarship.org

  4. Meet Dr. Ave Kludze Jr.: The first Ghanaian and African to command a NASA spacecraft in Orbit | Pulse Ghana

    Pulse Ghana

  5. How and why Ghana's flag made it to space

    Ghana Web

  6. Space-flown country flags and banners - collectSPACE: Messages

    collectSPACE: Messages

  7. Flown Flags carried in the astronaut PPKs

    collectSPACE

  8. Republic of Ghana - African Space Agency

    African Space Agency

  9. Ghana's Flag Reaches Space as NASA Astronaut Showcases Symbol of National Pride

    Ghanaian News, Canada

  10. Did astronaut Christina Koch take Ghana's flag on Artemis II mission?

    DUBAWA

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