In 1971, astronaut Stuart Roosa carried seeds during the Apollo 14 mission. While two of his companions descend to the Moon, he remains in orbit aboard the control module. The seeds travel with him.
When they return to Earth, they germinate. Plants are then distributed and planted in different places. They get a name that seems to promise an extraterrestrial landscape: the trees of the Moon.
None of them took root in the lunar soil. Their singularity lies in the path completed before germination. A passerby can thus cross a tree of ordinary appearance whose seeds have traveled, even before a first leaf appears, a distance that almost no human has crossed.
What we know
The seeds traveled in lunar orbit; the trees grew on Earth.
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