Stuart Roosa, the man who orbited the moon while his fellow astronauts walked on it, said today that the Boardman Industrial Park in Eastern Oregon is being considered for use as a giant spaceport. Roosa said the space program is interested in using the Boardman site, now leased to Boeing, for a launch site for a space shuttle program. Roosa say he expects the program to be under way by 1973.
25 Years Ago
May 6, 1996
Robert Bynum has been star struck since about the fourth grade. So landing a summer internship with the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., one of NASAâs main research facilities, is a dream come true. Goddard is the home base of the Hubble Space Station and one of the largest research facilities in the field. Bynum, who commutes from Pendleton to La Grande to attend Eastern Oregon State College, applied with about 10 summer research programs. About three weeks ago, he received an email message at Eastern from a researcher at a Goddard who asked if Byn
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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.
Durango’s 35 parks that ‘make life better’
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A guide to the city’s valued green spaces By Shannon Mullane Durango and Pine River Valley reporter
Saturday, May 1, 2021 5:33 AM Jessica Iudiciani, left, watches her son Hudson Rizzo, 2, climb the slide in Animas City Park on Thursday, as Nova Oberle watches her son, Cash Oberle, 7, make his way up. Animas City Park near 32nd Street and along East Second Avenue is possibly Durango’s oldest park. Jerry McBride/Durango Herald Santa Rita Park is home to several sculptures and the Emma Sweeny, a restored relic locomotive built in Hollywood for the 1950 movie, “Ticket to Tomahawk.” It also has a large grassy field and will have more amenities added later this year.
When will your favorite California attractions reopen?
Wondering when your beloved Golden State destinations will reopen? Times assistant travel editor Mary Forgione and travel writer Christopher Reynolds have teamed up to tell readers when more than 50 of the state’s top visitor destinations
Hoping to stop by
Pappy and Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace on your next trip to Joshua Tree National Park? It’s open, but live music is limited, Forgione and Reynolds report. Meanwhile, you’ll soon be all clear to visit the
Monterey Bay Aquarium, which opens to the public May 15.
What’s still closed? Hearst Castle, Coit Tower and Exploratorium in San Francisco and Big Basin Redwoods State Park, which is closed because of damage from the CZU Lightning Complex fires.
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There are so many aspects to every space mission that, more often than not, some of them get lost in the history books. How many people from the current generation remember, for instance, that hundreds of tree seeds were taken to the Moon by Apollo 14? 1 photo
The third mission to the Moon took off in 1971 with Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell, and Stuart Roosa on board. Like both other missions before them, two of the astronauts, Shepard and Mitchell, descended down to the surface of the Moon while Roosa stayed in orbit, overseeing their actions.
Roosa, a former U.S. Forest Service (USFS) smoke jumper, had with him small, sealed plastic bags containing up to 500 seeds from five tree species: Loblolly Pine, Sycamore, Sweetgum, Redwood, and Douglas Fir.