Students at Santiago STEAM Magnet Elementary School participate at a ceremony to plant a small Giant Sequoia tree from NASA’s Artemis I Mission’s tree seeds that traveled around the moon twice ...

Students at Santiago STEAM Magnet Elementary School participate at a ceremony to plant a small Giant Sequoia tree from NASA's Artemis I Mission's tree seeds that traveled around the moon twice ...

Those seeds eventually boarded the Orion spacecraft, though, and headed for the stars, spending November through December of 2022 traveling 270,000 miles to the moon and on into deep space.

Almost 1,000 seeds were carried in the Orion capsule, which orbited the moon as part of the mission. The seeds came from American Sycamore, Sweetgum, Douglas Fir, Loblolly Pine, and Giant Sequoia ...

But with fewer adult trees left alive to make seeds in the future, there's a risk some of this sequoia grove won't come back. "These parks were in part established to conserve sequoias," Brigham says.

NASA chose to honor Stuart Roosa by flying the same types of tree seeds on its Artemis I mission. The only change was swapping the coast redwood for the giant sequoia, which is basically a cousin ...

A small Giant Sequoia tree from NASA's Artemis I Mission's tree seeds that traveled around the moon twice is delivered at the Santiago STEAM Magnet Elementary School grounds, after it was honored ...

A small Giant Sequoia tree from NASA’s Artemis I Mission’s tree seeds that traveled around the moon twice is delivered at the Santiago STEAM … A small Giant Sequoia tree from NASA’s ...