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Space Flag of USSR
image by Graham Bartram and António Martins, 15 Aug 2007
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I thought I remembered reading somewhere that these were metal pennants sent up on unmanned Soviet planetary probes.
Eugene Ipavec, 06 Jun 2007

It was metal pennant transported to the Moon by unmanned space probe Luna-9 (Луна-9) in 1966. Small image of this pennant (with reverse side too) at Vexillographia.RU
Victor Lomantsov, 07 Jun 2007

I wonder where to stop: Most of these are simple plaques, not flags. A metal plaque with the shape and design of a flag is arguably a flag, as is perhaps an original design in a clearly flaggish shape like the attcahed. But a plaque with words and pictures in patterns not used in flags in not productively classified as a flag.
António Martins, 15 Aug 2007