Moon Trees

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The Topic of the week for this week is trees.  And more specifically stories related to trees.  You see trees grow all around us and they live a long, long time.
Because of that they are witness to many events in our lives and in history.  If they could talk, they would tell us many wonderful stories.  And stories are important because they connect us with our culture and history.  So since trees can't talk,I guees I will have to tell you the story of 3 remarkable trees in the US. 


The first story is related to Last week's topic of the week Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon.   Now you might think these two  topics have nothing in common. However, there is a connection.  You see Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 mission was not the only mission to go to the moon.  In 1971, the US sent astronauts to the moon aboard Apollo 14. This was the 3rd trip to the moon.  But this time, the astronauts weren’t the only living things on board.
Astronaut Stuart Roosa brought along over 400 tree seeds as part of his personal belongings.   When he returned to Earth the tree seeds were sprouted and grown until they were big enough to be given out to people, organizations, States in the US and many different countries around the world to plant and grow.  These trees are called moon trees. Because the went into outer space, orbitted around the moon and returned to Earth.   And as our Apollo astronauts age and pass away soon these trees will be the only living things left on Earth that have been that close to the moon.  A true witness to history.  

Moon trees look like any other trees but they have quite an interesting story if only they could talk. 

You can read more about them and see a list of the known location of moon trees by clicking on the links in the show notes. 

And stop by again to hear 2 more stories related to trees.   

Thanks for Listening.  This has been Cassie Brenn for fastfoodenglish.blogspot.com.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/moon_tree.html
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/moonTrees/index.html