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3 unusual facts about Stuart Roosa


Illinois Valley Airport

Lunar orbiter commander Stuart Roosa was a firefighter at the Siskiyou Smokejumper Base in 1954.

Stuart Roosa

Roosa earned a Program for Management Development (PMD) degree from Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1973 and an honorary LL.D. from University of St. Thomas, Houston in 1971.

In the miniseries From the Earth to the Moon (1998), Roosa was played by George Newbern.


California State Capitol Museum

The Apollo 14 Moon Tree, planted as a sapling in 1976 that was grown from a seed (among hundreds) carried by command module pilot Stuart Roosa during the 1971 mission.


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