Happy reading,
(ASP) - Did you know that, scattered across the four corners of the world, live
hundreds of creatures that went to the Moon and came back? And we
Don't talk about the astronauts, who were only about a dozen.
A NASA scientist recently cataloged 40 of these creatures, and he knows
there are many others, in fact most of them, who are outright
vanished into thin air.
These creatures are not human, but they are not extraterrestrial either.
No more: they are trees. They are called the Moon Trees, because
These are seeds that left Earth aboard Apollo 14 in 1971 and
were brought back by an astronaut whose father had devoted his entire life
to the U.S. Forest Service. Upon their return, these seeds had become
Nice gifts for foreign dignitaries, deserving schools, or the
Maison-Blanche
Of course, there was a small scientific aspect to this game: observing whether these
trees would grow properly after their stay in space. However
so that we could judge, that was the case: the 40 recorded by Dave Williams, of the
The Nasa are beautiful and robust adults. There are sycamores in there,
pines and other varieties growing in every corner of the United States.
Except that since they left the Forest Service laboratory,
In 1975, we lost sight of most of them. And today, while many people
pass by one of these trees, which seems quite ordinary, until
If you read the plaque next to it, there are not many experts left.
of the time to recall history and provide explanations. In
Indeed, given the great longevity of these trees, they could be a
Day, the only living creatures on Earth that have been to the Moon.
Marylena