NASA’s Artemis program has hit a critical snag—over 100 unexpected cracks have been discovered in the Orion capsule’s heat ...

NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement partnered with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Services to fly five species of tree seeds aboard Artemis I, including sweetgums, loblolly pines ...

More than a half-century ago, NASA astronaut Stuart Roosa, the command module pilot for the Apollo 14 mission and a former U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Services smoke jumper, carried tree ...

On Thursday, April 17, 2025, Camas High School will plant a rare "Moon Tree" on its campus, a seedling grown from seeds that traveled around the Moon on NASA's Artemis I mission. The Douglas-fir ...

The Artemis 2 mission, originally slated to launch ... back to Earth China signs deal with Russia to build a power plant on the moon — potentially leaving the US in the dust "We and our industry ...

Workers at the Kennedy Space Center have stacked the solid rocket boosters for the SLS that will launch the Artemis 2 mission ... American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet ...

Seeds of a variety of trees, including the sweetgum planted at the intermediate school, flew around the moon as part of NASA’s Artemis I program in 2022, according to the space agency's website.

The tree the school received was grown on the Artemis 1 mission, where it was flown about 27,000 miles around the earth’s moon. Upon receiving the tree, Colusa High School’s ChemClub planted ...