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“I’m very proud of my father’s legacy. I believe he would say the same thing as my children: go for it!” Laura Shepard said.

Letters from the community about disrespectful flags and heating our homes.

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...

A space-themed playground will be added to the Gazebo Park behind the Claremore Museum of History.

The roots of Stuart A. Roosa’s legacy run deep in Claremore. With a street and school named after him, his legacy continues in the form of a tree.

Chelsea Weeks / Progress photo SUBMITTED 2 hrs ago Claremore Museum of History will be planting a sycamore moon tree at 2 p.m. May 23. Chelsea Weeks / Progress photo In 1971, Claremore native Stuart “Stu” Roosa traveled to the moon on the Apollo 14. He took with him hundreds of seeds from loblolly pine, sycamore, sweetgum, redwood, and Douglas fir trees. This was a joint project with NASA and the U.S. Forest Service, who wanted to see whether space ...

" " This coast redwood Moon Tree in Monterey, California, was presented to the city in July 1976 to commemorate the bicentennial of the United States. It was a 2-foot-tall (0.60-meter) seedling grown by the Institute of Forest Genetics in Placerville, California, from one of Roosas original seeds. NASA Its entirely possible a UFO has been somewhere near your home for decades. Yes, we mean a UFO from outer space, just not the flying saucer kind. The UFO were talking about might be an "uni...

The Moon Tree — its history largely forgotten over the years — came from seeds that orbited the moon during the Apollo 14 mission in 1971

Stuart Roosa, the man who orbited the moon while his fellow astronauts walked on it, said today that the Boardman Industrial Park in Eastern Oregon is being considered for use as a giant spaceport. Roosa said the space program is interested in using the Boardman site, now leased to Boeing, for a launch site for a space shuttle program. Roosa say he expects the program to be under way by 1973. 25 Years Ago May 6, 1996 Robert Bynum has been star struck since about the fourth grade. So landing a s...

The event is open to the public. The tree grew from a seed that flew aboard Apollo 14 during a lunar mission in 1971. The loblolly pine was planted in 1976 by the Sertoma Club as part of the nation’s bicentennial celebration. A marker designating the tree as a “Moon Tree” was installed, but over the years it disappeared. Now, a new marker stands at the tree, one of many trees NASA offered as seeds to cities and organizations across the nation. The idea to take seeds from five species of t...