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NASA is seeking education and community organizations to help plant a practical forest of trees with a unique pedigree: the moon. The space agency and Forest Service want to grow Artemis moon trees.

TOPEKA (KSNT) – The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is partnering with the National Forest Service to distribute a living piece of spaceflight history that people should be able to enjoy for the next several years. Educators and community members will soon have the chance to get living things that were once in zero […]

Roughly 2,000 seeds were flown on the Artemis I mission. The seeds will now become official Moon Trees here on Earth.

Roughly 2,000 seeds were flown on the Artemis I mission. The seeds will now become official Moon Trees here on Earth.

NASA's Artemis program is taking a unique approach to bridge space exploration and education by distributing tree seedlings that have flown around the Moon.

Last year, nearly 2000 tree seeds traveled to the moon and back to Earth aboard the Artemis I, Orion space capsule.

Last year, nearly 2000 tree seeds traveled to the moon and back to Earth aboard the Artemis I, Orion space capsule.

In what was part experiment and part publicity stunt, an Apollo astronaut took a tin of tree seeds around the moon more than 50 years ago, and now the Artemis mission is doing it again.

The clone of the tree that grew from a seed that went to the moon doesn’t look like much. It’s still a callow sapling, a flurry of bright gr

At the Folly Tree Arboretum, a natural museum curated by an artist with a historian’s eye, every oak, magnolia and sycamore has its own peculiar tale.