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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe Almost Forgot About the Moon Trees
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/01/nasa-moon-trees-apollo/621395/?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=0bd1e79b7c-briefing-dy-20220202&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-0bd1e79b7c-46904194A collection of tree seeds that went round and round the moon was scattered far and wide back home.
By Marina Koren
The American moon missions, more than 50 years later, are each memorable in their own way. Apollo 11, of course, is known for being the very first time human beings set foot on the moon. Apollo 12, for being a little rowdier. Apollo 13, for nearly ending in disaster. Apollo 14the third of six moon landingsis known, as I recently discovered, for its moon trees.
Stuart Roosa, one of the Apollo 14 astronauts, took a small canvas bag of tree seeds with him on the journey. While his fellow astronauts walked on the lunar surface, Roosa and the seeds flew round and round the moon until the crew was ready to come back. A few years after the astronauts returned home, some of the seedssycamores, redwoods, pines, firs, and sweetgumswere planted across the United States, to see how they would grow, or simply to keep a piece of moon history close by.
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We Almost Forgot About the Moon Trees (Original Post)
Lochloosa
Feb 2022
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JuJuChen
(2,215 posts)1. we need more stories like this, thank you
Duncanpup
(12,852 posts)2. Awesome I never knew thanks for posting