Talk:Moon tree

"As would be expected"
The lead paragraph indirectly suggests that this project was more of a publicity stunt than a scientific experiment. This apparent slant is reinforced by the parenthetical comment in the next paragraph: "as would be expected, after over twenty years there is no discernable difference." As an element of my scientific training during the Apollo era, one of the things that we learned is that a good scientist who performs an experiment that has never been done before (e.g. planting seeds that have been taken to the moon) should do so without preconceived expectations about the outcome. There have certainly been many unexpected scientific surprises resulting from the Apollo program's experiments. Does the wording of this article indicate a lack of NPOV, or can one find evidence that NASA in fact never intended to use the moon tree project as a genuine scientific experiment and made no significant attempt to conduct it as such? Piperh 07:43, 9 May 2007 (UTC)


 * The "as expected" phrase is taken from the reference. It could be that the hypothesis was that there would be no change, therefore the experiment results were as predicted or expected.  Still, without solid references it's all just speculation. Rich257 12:35, 9 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I guess hindsight is a POV. I don't entirely agree that scientists don't have expectations.  Isn't an experiment generally preceeded by a "theory", or "hypothesis", that an experiment is designed to support?  That said, I think simply deleting "as would be expected," would improve the article, unless there are sources that show they were expecting no difference.  Also clarifying the trees were used for publicity after the initial experiment concluded should be done, if verifiable.--J Clear 12:41, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Buy seeds of Moont trees
A couple of years ago it was still possible to go on the website of nasa - to nasa's shop and buy a tin with some seeds harvested from moon trees. But now I can't find it anymore. Typically such seeds and their resulting trees would be used to either advance the thought of the moon trees and peace trees at e.g. some UN Observance Day. I think this should be added to the article. Anybody can find the link to buy these tins with seeds? I'll ask on the nasa webpage on the moon trees and report back here. Thy --SvenAERTS (talk) 10:10, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

A tree not listed
According to File:Georgia moon tree.jpg, one was planted at the Okefenokee Swamp. It isn't in the list. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 18:51, 9 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Bubba73,
 * Good afternoon. According to my research, there wasn't a Moon Tree at the Okefenokee Swamp.  Don Berryhill, OK RESA Scientist, relates the story of how OK RESA received the Moon Tree seed back when OK RESA was considered more of a "Science Center".  I tried to open the jpg file above but was unsuccessful.  BTW:  We have a lot in common....I, too, lived in Brunswick...and my dad was a shrimper.....and we ate a lot of shrimp....a lot of ways.
 * Reba Smith 66.115.98.85 (talk) 19:50, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Yes. JSC does have a moon tree!
JSC’s “Moon tree” (donated by Rosemary Roosa) is planted on a grassy knoll across from the B3 cafeteria wrapped with wire fencing to protect from our JSC wildlife. Gcblackburn (talk) 18:45, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

Weeping Beech?
A Weeping Beech is listed at Lansing, MI, but that species is not among the five that were included in the experiment. Anybody know why that tree is in this list? --Crispyinstilly (talk) 15:25, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

How many?
The article says "500 seeds" but source 2 says "Roosa carried possibly 2000 or more seeds". And this page linked from source 3 says "roughly 500 seeds for each species" or around 2500 total. Other pages do say 500, "hundreds", or similar though.

Also, 420 saplings? convenient number, eh? 207.157.121.60 (talk) 18:19, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

Artemis I
NASA recently announced that they will be sending a "new generation" of seeds aboard Artemis 1 when it goes into lunar orbit, whenever that will be (thanks to delays). If/when these trees get planted back on Earth, how should we handle the table? Should we make a new table to separate the Apollo trees from the Artemis trees, or should we add a new column to the existing table and put them all together? Askarion  ✉  15:18, 13 September 2022 (UTC)


 * New table. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 19:49, 13 September 2022 (UTC)