<div dir="ltr"><div>Some of the trees from seeds that orbited the moon may still be alive. Below it appears is a list of the "moon trees" and where they are located:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://pillownaut.com/spacemap/solarsystemwalks.html">http://pillownaut.com/spacemap/solarsystemwalks.html</a></div><div>----------------------------------------<br></div><div><br></div><div>From the Idaho Statesman:</div><div><br></div><div><font size="6">To the moon and back: Boise rallies to save tree grown from seeds that were on Apollo 14 </font></div><div>September 29, 2015 11:05 PM</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/boise/article41570934.html">http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/boise/article41570934.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>By Anna Webb</div><div class="gmail-glyphicon gmail-glyphicon-share"></div><div> </div><div class="gmail-ndn_embed gmail-ndn_embedding gmail-ndn_embedContainer gmail-ndn-widget-embed-1 gmail-ndn_embedded" id="gmail-ndn-video-player-1"></div><div class="gmail-dateline-storybody"><div class="gmail-clearfix" id="gmail-story-target"><div id="gmail-content-body-36822996-41570934"><p>A lot of seeds just fall from trees, land and take root. For other seeds, the trip is longer. When Apollo 14 ventured to the moon in 1971, hundreds of tree seeds were among the cargo. After the spacecraft returned to Earth, the U.S. Forest Service germinated the seeds. The resulting “moon trees” found homes across the U.S. and beyond, including in Boise. </p><p>A loblolly pine, whose seed orbited the moon 34 times, now grows on the grounds at Lowell Elementary School in the North End. It stands along 28th Street, near a chain-link fence, just south of the 100-year-old school building. The pine is Idaho’s sole living moon tree. </p></div></div></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><font size="4">What is perhaps more incredible is that U of I Dept. of Physics professor Dr. Jason Barnes is involved in a proposal to send a robotic spacecraft to Titan, the largest of Saturn's moons.</font></div><div>-------------------------------------</div><div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div><div>_______________________</div><div>From article below:</div><div><p>"In 2012, Dr. Jason Barnes and his team from the University of Idaho proposed sending a robotic aircraft to Titan, which would fly around in the atmosphere photographing its surface. Titan is actually one of the best places in the entire solar system to fly an airplane. It has a thicker atmosphere and lower gravity, and unlike the balloon concept, an airplane is free to go wherever it needs powered by a radioactive thermal generator.</p><p>Although the mission would only cost about $750 million or so, NASA hasn't pushed it beyond the conceptual stage yet."</p></div><div>--------------------------------------<br></div><div><a href="https://phys.org/news/2017-03-mission-titan.html">https://phys.org/news/2017-03-mission-titan.html</a><br></div><div><h1>What about a mission to Titan?</h1><h5 class="gmail-data"> March 27, 2017 by Fraser Cain, Universe Today <br></h5></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 9:54 PM, Lynn McCollough <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lmccollough@gmail.com" target="_blank">lmccollough@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="ltr">I just learned that Moscow Idaho, at the U of I had one of the trees grown from seed that our astronauts took in orbit around the moon, back in 1971.<div>I was all ready to go and look for it, but alas it died a few years ago. I wonder what killed it?</div><div><a href="https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/moon_trees/univ_idaho_tree.html" target="_blank">https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/<wbr>planetary/lunar/moon_trees/<wbr>univ_idaho_tree.html</a><br></div></div>
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