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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

UHRICHSVILLE – A sycamore tree seed that traveled 268,563 miles from Earth and around the moon during NASA’s Artemis I mission in 2022 has landed in the form of a sapling on the grounds of Claymont ...

In February 1971, onboard the Apollo 14 Command and Service Module Kitty Hawk, Command Module Pilot Stuart Roosa was conducting “observations, experiments, and scientific investigations” in lunar ...