When Apollo 14 returned to Earth in 1971, it brought with it an unexpected legacy: hundreds of tree seeds that had orbited the Moon. These seeds, later called “Moon Trees,” were part of a small ...

This story originally published online in The 9th Street Journal. On Tuesday, March 18, Ryan Sailstad, recreation and operations supervisor for Durham Parks and Recreation, received an unexpected text ...

RICHMOND, Ind. — A moon tree is growing in Indiana, and it isn't the first. On Aug. 2, the Hayes Arboretum in Richmond announced it had been chosen to host a 'moon tree.' The Sweetgum tree is back on ...

SUPREME COURT. BREAKING NEWS IN GREENSBORO A CRASH HAS CLOSED PART OF RANDLEMAN ROAD. THIS HAPPENED ABOUT 45 MINUTES AGO BETWEEN WEST MEADOWVIEW ROAD AND ROBIN STREET. NO WORD ON HOW MANY CARS WERE ...

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah — Space exploration just got a lot closer to Neil Armstrong Academy in the West Valley. On Friday, NASA gifted the school with a Moon Tree, a special Douglas-fir sapling that ...

Several K-12 schools and universities in North Carolina have been selected to receive “Moon Trees” from NASA. NASA’s Moon Tree initiative started back in 1971 when astronaut Stuart Roosa carried tree ...

FERNWOOD, MI – There’s a sycamore tree in Michigan that has been to the moon and back. Astronaut Stuart Roosa brought thousands of tree seeds on the Apollo 14 mission in 1971. Later, four young trees ...

Dennis Worsham inherited a lunar legacy – and burden – when he bought former NASA astronaut Stuart Roosa’s home in west Austin. Roosa had carried as many as 500 tree seeds on his Apollo 14 mission in ...

Though Stuart Roosa loved being in the great outdoors — he’d once been a U.S. Forest Service smokejumper — the job he held at the beginning of 1971 made being outdoors an impossibility. Roosa was the ...

GREENLAWN, NY — The Harborfields School District planted what it believes was the first original moon tree to take root in New York, the district announced, in what it called a "truly ...