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. - Some out-of-this-world trees are now home and ready to begin inspiring a new generation. NASA is preparing to distribute "moon tree" seedlings that have sprouted from seeds ...

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 t.

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 ...

With a pop like a potato chip bag bursting, the plastic bags holding hundreds of itty-bitty tree seeds exploded like confetti across the vacuum chamber. It’s February 1971, and astronaut Stuart Roosa ...