There is a sycamore tree on my campus that once left the earth. It orbited the moon in 1971 on the Apollo 14 mission as a seedling and was planted on campus after it returned. It is tall and sprawling and draped with moss and beautiful, but I worry about how close it is to an intersection that’s going to see some construction in the coming year.

Here’s a fun little story about how they cloned it to replace the space tree at Kennedy Space Center that died in hurricane Irma.

Whenever I drive past it I think about the adventures it has had. How often do you get to touch something that’s been to space?