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Stuart Roosa

History

Space Seeds: Moon Trees in Western North Carolina

Back in 1971, astronaut and former U.S. Forest Service smoke jumper Stuart Roosa carried more than 400 seeds into space with him on Apollo 14. Two of those seeds found a new home in North Carolina.

by Jeremy Markovich

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