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Florida's "Moon Trees"
 Astronaut Stuart Roosa, a former U.S. Forest
Service smoke jumper, orbited the moon in the command
module of Apollo 14 on January 31, 1971.
Packed in small containers in Roosa's personal
kit were hundreds of tree seeds.
This one was germinated,
and the seedling was planted here as part of the
nation's bicentennial in 1976.
PHOTO: This Loblolly Pine 'Moon Tree" was grown from a seed that traveled to the moon and back on Apollo XIV in 1971. It is located at the Florida Division of Forestry, Doyle Conner
Office Complex, in Tallahassee, Florida. Photo taken in 2003.
The plaque reads:
Moon Tree
Loblolly Pine
Pinus taeda
Partial list of Apollo XIV Moon Trees planted in Florida
| City |
Location |
Type of Tree |
Planting Date |
Cape Canaveral
Gainesville
Keystone Heights
Perry
Tallahassee
Tallahassee
|
Kennedy Space Center
University of Florida
Keystone Heights Library
Forest Capital Park
Cascades Park
Doyle Conner Office Complex
|
Sycamore
Sycamore
Sycamore
Loblolly Pine
Sycamore
Loblolly Pine
|
25 June 1976
?
1984
26 April 1978
?
1976
|
Want to know more about "Moon Trees"? Visit the NASA "Moon Tree" Page
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