#stuartroosa

Apollo 14 Launch

One of only 24 people to have visited the Moon, Apollo 14 Command Module pilot Stuart Roosa was a graduate of the historic 1966 Astronaut Group 5, logging almost exactly 9 days in space over the span of his career.  While he may have never walked on the lunar surface, Roosa conducted important experiments from the Apollo 14 Command Module while crew mates Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell trudged along the surface below. This included taking photographs of the lunar surface and of the future landing site of the Apollo 16 mission. Due to his past as a smokejumper in Oregon and California, Roosa was contacted by the Chief of the Forest Service, Ed Cliff, prior to launching with an unusual proposal - to take tree seeds into space. Since referred to as "Moon Trees", the five different types of tree seeds that Roosa took into space were germinated upon their return and planted through the United States in one of the many U.S. Forest Service/NASA projects that the two agencies have since orchestrated. To read more about Stuart Roosa: http://goo.gl/ogvDb4 http://goo.gl/oFsxBl http://goo.gl/bGCfzZ Celebrate Stuart Roosa's birthday by writing to Congress to let them know you support doubling funding for NASA: http://www.penny4nasa.org/take-action/