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This chunk of the moon is on permanent loan from NASA to the museum.

On the morning of May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard crawled into the cramped Mercury capsule, "Freedom 7," at Launch Complex 5 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

How first American in space brought a newspaper to the moon MARA BELLABY, Florida Today FacebookTwitterEmail MELBOURNE, Fla. (AP) — When the 363-foot Saturn V rocket ignited its five engines to send the crew of Apollo 14 — including America’s first man in space, Alan Shepard — on their lunar mission, something rather unusual was on board. TODAY, founded by Al Neuharth just five years earlier, was going to the moon. “It was a big deal but shoot, this was TODAY newspaper, we can do anyt...

Moon Trees are living testaments to mankind’s first trips to the Moon: Where are they now? Updated Feb 08, 2021; Posted Feb 08, 2021 A sycamore Moon Tree planted at Mississippi State University in 1975 is the parent tree to many second-generation trees called Half-Moon Trees. Credits: NASA/Will Bryan Facebook Share In February 1971, onboard the Apollo 14 Command and Service Module Kitty Hawk, Command Module Pilot Stuart Roosa was conducting “observations, experiments, and scientific inves...

By Rachel LeishmanFeb 5th, 2021, 2:09 pm According to  NASA, Command Module Pilot Stuart Roosa brought a canister of approximately 400-500 loblolly pine, sweetgum, redwood, Douglas fir, and sycamore tree seeds with him while he was on Apollo 14 Command and Service Module Kitty Hawk. Those seeds, when they returned to Earth, were then planted around the United States, and now we can go see these trees all grown up. So why is that exciting? Because, technically, they went to the Moon. Can’t b...