The first is tentative, dangerous and glorious, a voyage into the unknown perched on some untried piece of engineering, ending with proud footsteps in the alien dust and the planting of the flag.

Long: Alternating rows of even and odd Numbers of stars, beginning and ending with the longer row. This is the pattern of our current 50-star flag.

I tweaked the ending lines and structure of the stroke for the red part a lot, as it seemed to have lost some balance once I applied it to the flag.