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Topic:	Apollo 14's Moon Trees and descendants

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B]NASA release <BLOCKQUOTE>[b]NASA's Apollo 14 legacy continues with Earth Day tree planting[/b] <div align="justify">NASA, the National Arboretum and American Forests celebrated Earth Day and the 40th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing with a tree planting ceremony April 22 at the National Arboretum in Washington, DC. The planting ceremony began at 1 p.m. EDT. NASA astronaut Stuart Roosa had been a U.S. Forest Service smoke jumper. During the Apollo 14 mission to the moon in 1971, he took along tree seeds from a Loblolly pine, sycamore, sweet gum, redwood, and Douglas fir. After returning to Earth, the U.S. Forest Service germinated these seeds, which grew into first-generation "moon trees." The moon trees have been planted throughout the United States, but the sycamore is the first to be planted at the National Arboretum. American Forests, the nation's oldest conservation organization, continues the legacy of this Apollo-era program by maintaining second-generation moon trees and [URL=http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/moonTrees/index.html]making them available[/URL] through its Historic Trees Program.</div></BLOCKQUOTE> <center><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/moontrees_natlaboretum01.jpg" WIDTH="400" HEIGHT="602"></center> <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]A second generation Sycamore "moon" tree was newly planted in celebration of Earth Day and the 40th Anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing at the US National Arboretum, Wednesday, April 22, 2009, in Washington.[/i] (NASA/Bill Ingalls)</BLOCKQUOTE> <center><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/moontrees_natlaboretum02.jpg" WIDTH="400" HEIGHT="318"></center> <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]From left, Dr. Thomas Elias, Director of the US National Arboretum, Dr. Deborah Gangloff, Executive Director of American Forests, and, Mr. Alan Ladwig, Senior Advisor to the NASA Administrator, plant a second generation Sycamore "moon" tree in celebration of Earth Day and the 40th Anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing at the US National Arboretum.[/i] (NASA/Bill Ingalls)</BLOCKQUOTE>[/B][/QUOTE]
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