posted 09-25-2016 12:13 PM               

• Space Exposed Experiment Developed for Students (SEEDS) - tomato, corn and soybean seeds launched on STS-41C (1984), STS-88 (1998) and ISS Expedition 1 (2000).

  The tomato seeds were stowed aboard the Long Duration Exposure Facility deployed by STS-41C and retrieved by STS-32, five years, nine months, 14 days later. The corn and soybean seeds were the first plant growth experiment aboard the International Space Station.

• Lunar Plant Growth Chamber Challenge - 10 million cinnamon basil seeds flown aboard space shuttle Endeavour's STS-118 mission (2007).

• Tomatosphere - tomato seeds flown aboard the International Space Station as part of a program led by the Canadian Space Agency.

  Among the tomato seeds launched: 1.5 million on STS-127 (2009), 400,000 on STS-135 (2011) and 600,000 tomato seeds on SpaceX CRS-6 (2015).

• Rocket Science - 2 kilograms of rocket (Eruca sativa) seeds launched on Soyuz TMA-18M (2015) and returned to Earth in March 2016 as part of Tim Peake's Principia mission for the European Space Agency. The program was organized by the Royal Horticultural Society and UK Space Agency.

posted 10-14-2016 05:42 PM               

This apple tree was grown from apple seeds provided by the Alabama Aerospace Teachers' Association in conjunction with the Cosmic Apple Seed Project. The seeds were flown aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour (OV-105) by Alabama Astronaut Joe F. Edwards. Launched on January 22, 1998, the seeds traveled over 3.6 million miles in 8 days, 19 hours, 48 minutes, docked with the Mir Space Station and traveled over 18,000 miles per hour. The seeds returned to the Cape on January 31, 1998. Mrs. Diane Watson's 3rd Grade Class at Webb Elementary School, in Webb, Alabama planted the seed during Spring of 1998.