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Claremore MOH plants moon tree

Chelsea Weeks / Progress photo SUBMITTED 2 hrs ago 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 “Stu” 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.

Athens Moon Tree, an Apollo 14 legacy, rededicated with new marker

Athens Historical Society to rededicate Moon Tree at Friday ceremony

The event is open to the public. The tree grew from a seed that flew aboard Apollo 14 during a lunar mission in 1971. The loblolly pine was planted in 1976 by the Sertoma Club as part of the nation’s bicentennial celebration. A marker designating the tree as a “Moon Tree” was installed, but over the years it disappeared. Now, a new marker stands at the tree, one of many trees NASA offered as seeds to cities and organizations across the nation. The idea to take seeds from five species of trees aboard the moon mission came from astronaut Stuart Roosa, who piloted the command module while astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell walked on the moon.

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