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How first American in space brought a newspaper to the moon


How first American in space brought a newspaper to the moon
MARA BELLABY, Florida Today
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MELBOURNE, Fla. (AP) When the 363-foot Saturn V rocket ignited its five engines to send the crew of Apollo 14 including America’s first man in space, Alan Shepard on their lunar mission, something rather unusual was on board.
TODAY, founded by Al Neuharth just five years earlier, was going to the moon.
“It was a big deal but shoot, this was TODAY newspaper, we can do anything,” recalled David Baker, whose father, Buddy Baker, was TODAY’s community service director and arranged the paper’s out-of-this-world trip. ....

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Moon Trees are living testaments to mankind's first trips to the Moon: Where are they now?


Moon Trees are living testaments to mankind’s first trips to the Moon: Where are they now?
Updated Feb 08, 2021;
Posted Feb 08, 2021
A sycamore Moon Tree planted at Mississippi State University in 1975 is the parent tree to many second-generation trees called Half-Moon Trees.
Credits: NASA/Will Bryan
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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 orbit, while his fellow crew members, Commander Alan Shepard and Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell explored the Fra Mauro formation on the Moon’s surface.
A statement by NASA History, on Feb. 4, recounts that 50 years ago onboard Kitty Hawk, in Roosa’s personal travel kit, was “a canister of approximately 400-500 loblolly pine, sweet gum, redwood, Douglas fir, and sycamore tree seeds.” ....

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Apollo 14 Commander Alan Shepard's 'lost' golf ball is discovered but it only travelled 40 yards


Commander Shepard visited the lunar surface during the Apollo 14 mission 
Nearing the end of his moon walk, he hit two golf balls using a makeshift club
One went into a crater but the ultimate location of the other was unclear
Image expert Andy Saunders digitally enhanced images taken on the mission
The second ball, he revealed, travelled a mere 40 yards before coming to rest  ....

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