Roosa’s daughter, Rosemary Roosa, is creating second-generation moon trees through the surviving trees’ seeds and with grafting. NASA is working to create an entirely new batch of moon trees.

Future Artemis moon trees include giant sequoia, Douglas-fir, loblolly pine, sweetgum and sycamore. The seedlings were flown around the moon on NASA's Artemis 1 mission in December 2022. NASA ...

NASA is branching out into schools by inviting teachers to apply for a chance to bring a “moon tree” seeding into their classrooms. In Nov. 2022, NASA teamed up with the USDA Forest Service to ...

The story of Apollo 14 pilot Stuart Roosa’s pocketful of seeds might seem quaint if it weren’t so absurd. It all starts in 1971, as Roosa flies to the Moon with a small forest of seeds in his ...

On Sunday afternoon, as the moon came over the horizon, its bright orange light filtered through trees in Grant Park and shone on DNC protesters. It then seemingly shed that color in favor of a ...

Moon trees are in fact the real deal. North Carolina is also home to a few of them. On Jan. 31, 1971, U.S. Astronaut Stuart Roosa orbited around the moon in the command module as part of Apollo 14 ...

When the Moon is close to the horizon, we see it as next to familiar objects like trees and buildings, and we know deep down that trees and buildings are large objects. So the brain may ...