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 ...

Fifty years ago, NASA’s Apollo 14 completed the third crewed mission to the moon. On board the spacecraft as it landed in the Pacific Ocean on February 9, 1971, was some unusual cargo – about 500 tree ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA’s Artemis program has deep figurative roots that go back to the Apollo moon missions of the 1960s and 1970s. And soon, it will have literal roots as well. Tucked away ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Five trees planted in New Mexico from seeds taken to the moon during the Apollo 14 mission and given to the state by NASA have all died or been forgotten, according to officials at ...

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, ...

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 ...

A redwood moon tree stands near the town hall in Monterey, Calif., in Friendly Plaza. See.monterey.com You can thank Stuart Roosa for what have become known as America’s moon trees. The Apollo 14 ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Five trees planted in New Mexico from seeds taken to the moon during the Apollo 14 mission and given to the state by NASA have all died or been forgotten, according to officials at ...

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 ...

Back in 1976, the Athens Banner-Herald reported on the planting of a “Moon Tree” that “may rival” the city’s legendary Tree That Owns Itself. However, the Moon Tree's reputation never germinated. The ...

You can thank Stuart Roosa for what have become known as America’s moon trees. The Apollo 14 astronaut and former U.S. Forest Service smokejumper blasted off for the moon in 1971 with hundreds of ...