NASA is seeking education and community organizations to help grow a practical forest of trees with a unique pedigree — the moon.
Inspired by an Apollo astronaut's initiative, the space agency and U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Forest Service are looking to plant seedlings that were grown from seeds flown around the moon on NASA's Artemis I mission in 2022.
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The first woman slated to launch to the moon has delivered one of the first trees grown from seeds recently flown there.
NASA astronaut Christina Koch presented a Loblolly Pine "Moon Tree" sapling to her home state of North Carolina on Wednesday (April 24). The tree began as one of more than 1,000 seeds that were flown around the moon on NASA's uncrewed Artemis I mission in 2022.