(NASA) – On Feb. 9, 1971, the nine-day Apollo 14 Moon landing mission came to a successful conclusion with the splashdown of astronauts Alan B. Shepard, Stuart A. Roosa, and Edgar D. Mitchell aboard ...

In 1971, NASA sent the Apollo 14 mission to the moon, a mission manned by three astronauts with 500 tree seeds. Astronauts, ...

When Apollo 14 returned to Earth in 1971, it brought with it an unexpected legacy: hundreds of tree seeds that had orbited the Moon. These seeds, later called “Moon Trees,” were part of a small ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Saturn V rocket lifts off carrying the Apollo 14 mission from Florida in January 31, 1971. File Photo courtesy of NASA Jan. 31 ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A collection of 36 fragmented Bibles that went into space during the Apollo 14 mission, which were found in a Knoxville church, is now up for auction. The Bibles are up for auction ...

Apollo 14 — the safely numbered one after that, um, other one — splashed down 40 years ago today. Since there were no dancing-on-the-edge death-defying dramatic escapes on this one, the mission is ...

The Apollo Prayer League worked to send Bibles to the moon. After succeeding in 1971, some of those Bibles on mircroform went to a church in Knoxville. It was a unique gift for a unique church. The ...

MYSTERY WIRE — With much of the nation’s attention on NASA with the new rover landing on Mars, this month also marks another milestone. It was 50 years ago this month that NASA launched and returned ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1972, something unexpected happened at the Church of the Savior United Church of Christ in Knoxville. The congregation received ...