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Brittany
asks:
Were you very surprised when you first
heard about the Moon Trees? When did you
first hear about them?
Dr.
Williams:
Yes, I was very surprised, I didn't know
anything about the Moon Trees. I first
heard about them from Mrs. Goble, on
December 1, 1996 when she sent me an email
asking me about the Moon Tree at Camp
Koch.
Charlie
asks:
How
did you find out about all of those trees
you have listed on your
website?
Dr.
Williams:
The first trees were found from
information from the NASA History office
and by searching the web, but most of the
trees were "found" because someone saw the
web page or read one of the articles about
them and sent me an email. People would
then send me information, pictures, newspaper clippings, whatever they had.
Now there is a group of people called
"geocachers" who locate trees and record
their location on their GPS units and post
pictures and information.
Heather
asks:
Have you ever met any of the Apollo
astronauts? If so, did you ask them about
the Moon Trees?
Dr.
Williams:
I've met Harrison Schmitt, of Apollo 17,
twice, but I never asked him about the
Moon Trees.
Tre
asks:
How many of the trees you have listed have
you actually seen in
person?
Dr.
Williams:
Just the one here at Goddard Space Flight
Center. I'm hoping to see more of them
some day, I'm really hoping I'll get to
see yours soon!
Jessica
asks: Would you please tell us about your
job? Also, have you always been interested
in space?
Dr.
Williams:
I really like my job. I work at Goddard
Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland
at the National Space Science Data Center,
which is NASA's archive for its space
data. I'm the scientist in charge of the
planetary data. And as long as I can
remember I've been interested in space, my
Dad built spacecraft at Grumman when I was
growing up and I always loved watching the
Gemini and Apollo missions.
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