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 pocket.
Sunbeams and moonbeams. Those are the familiar terms for crepuscular rays, alternating shafts of shadow and sunlight that stream through clouds to form an ethereal crown of light around the sun or ...
The third annual Forest Moon Festival — hosted by the Humboldt-Del Norte Film Commission — is slated to take place May 30 to June 1 across the iconic redwoods of Northern California — the very filming ...
NELSONVILLE — The Wayne National Forest planted a Moon Tree sapling at its Forest Headquarters building May 23 as part of an initiative between NASA and the U.S. Forest Service. The sweetgum sapling ...
Armadillo. Armadillos are lunar phobic and less active when there is more lunar/moon illumination. Taken by a wildlife camera. A recent study using automatic wildlife cameras across three continents ...
Education and community organizations can apply to receive a living piece of spaceflight history to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics: a seedling grown from a tree seed that ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Wayne National Forest planted a Moon Tree sapling last month that spent six weeks in space aboard the Orion spacecraft. The sapling was planted as part of an initiative between ...