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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 ...
On Tuesday, elementary school staff and students, accompanied by special guest and former NASA astronaut Catherine “Cady” ...
The Idaho Museum of Natural History and Idaho State University campus have been selected for the out of this world ...
SANDY — Smokey Bear joined students and staff at Sprucewood Elementary School on Tuesday to help plant a unique Artemis I Moon Tree, granted to them by NASA. The school's new Douglas fir ...
On Friday, NASA gifted the school with a Moon Tree, a special Douglas-fir sapling that traveled all the way from space. The Moon Tree began its journey as a seed aboard the historic 2022 Artemis I ...
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 land after ...
Erica Heide, senior park ranger for the City of Pittsburgh, said the Moon Tree is around 3-4 feet tall right now, but at maturity sweetgum trees can reach between 60-75 feet tall and 40-75 feet wide.
That’s right, it is a Moon Tree. The pine tree growing in the museum’s garden started as one of the hundreds of seeds that went on NASA’s Artemis I mission in 2022, where they orbited the moon.
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - Officials with Alabama State Parks, the Von Braun Astronomical Society, city leaders, and a NASA representative all came together Thursday to dedicate a Moon Tree at Monte ...