Plus the bad astronemer disproves this image of the flag rippling
From
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html#flag
" Many HBs show a picture of an astronaut standing to one side of the flag, which still has a ripple in it (for example,
see this famous image). The astronaut is not touching the flag, so how can it wave? The answer is, it
isn't waving. It looks like that because of the way the flag was deployed. The flag hangs from a horizontal rod which telescopes out from the vertical one. In Apollo 11, they couldn't get the rod to extend completely, so the flag didn't get stretched fully. It has a ripple in it, like a curtain that is not fully closed. In later flights, the astronauts didn't fully deploy it
on purpose because they liked the way it looked. In other words,
the flag looks like it is waving because the astronauts wanted it to look that way. Ironically, they did their job too well. It appears to have fooled a lot of people into thinking it waved.
This explanation comes from NASA's wonderful
spaceflight web page. For those of you who are conspiracy minded, of course, this doesn't help because it comes from a NASA site. But it does explain why the flag looks as it does, and you will be hard pressed to find a video of the flag waving. And if it was a mistake caused by a breeze on the set where they faked this whole thing, don't you think the director would have tried for a second take? With all the money going to the hoax, they could afford the film!"