Chelsea Weeks / Progress photo
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Claremore Museum of History will be planting a sycamore moon tree at 2 p.m. May 23. Chelsea Weeks / Progress photo
In 1971, Claremore native Stuart âStuâ Roosa traveled to the moon on the Apollo 14. He took with him hundreds of seeds from loblolly pine, sycamore, sweetgum, redwood, and Douglas fir trees. This was a joint project with NASA and the U.S. Forest Service, who wanted to see whether space travel would affect the seeds. These seeds spent ten days in space, landing on the moon and then returning safely to Earth with the astronauts.