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The Bicentennial Moon Tree

Posted on | October 16, 2008 | No Comments

If you didn’t already know, a space traveler is on permanent display in Washington Square. A sycamore seed that traveled along with Apollo XIV was grown into a wee sapling and given to the citizens of Philadelphia, not terribly far from where the first hot air balloon was launched in the US.

Astronaut Stuart Roosa and Woodsie the Owl planted the sycamore in the northwest corner of the park on May 6, 1975. NASA’s page on the topic is here.

And even if you were aware of the Washington Park moon tree, what you might not know is that there are five other moon trees in Pennsylvania, including one at Lockheed Martin in King of Prussia (right next to Bahama Breeze!) and Core Creek Park in Newtown.

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