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 ...

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 ...