In 1971 Stuart Roosa — the command module pilot of Apollo 14 — carried hundreds of tree seeds around the Moon.

NASA’s Moon Trees preserve a piece of Apollo history, with a new generation of seeds also traveling around the Moon in 2022.

The seedlings were grown from tree seeds that traveled 270,000 miles from Earth. If you're an avid gardener, it's likely the plants in your landscape were sourced from a variety of different places.

Taking just a quick drive southeast from Columbus can bring you to a tree that left this world and returned. Through collaboration between the United States Forest Service and NASA, Wayne National ...

To cheers and applause from kids wearing spacesuits and star-studded T-shirts, a tree was planted in California that is out of this world. The so-called "Moon Tree"—grown with seeds that were flown ...

In communities all across the US, travelers that went to the moon and back with the Apollo 14 mission are living out their quiet lives. The voyagers in question are not astronauts. They’re “moon trees ...

What NASA accomplished in the early 1970s is a little-known but truly impressive feat. Instead of putting rockets or robots in space, they put seeds there. Seeds of different trees accompanied ...

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 ...

"Moon Trees" are starting to grow on Earth. They got that name because as seeds they spent some time in space. Moon trees are landing across the country. That's because a couple of years ago, NASA ...

HAMPSHIRE CHRONICLE MONDAY AT SEVEN. NOW, THIS IS A COOL LITTLE STORY. AND OUT OF THE WORLD OPPORTUNITY FOR STUDENTS AT BARNSTEAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. A TREE THAT ONCE ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- A moon tree is landing in Pittsburgh's Riverview Park in front of the Allegheny Observatory. Seeds of multiple tree species traveled thousands of miles from Earth and orbited and ...