St. Peter Catholic School in DeLand received Wednesday a loblolly pine sapling from a seed that flew around the moon during NASA’s Artemis I mission in 2022.

Inside the burn, loblolly pine saplings keeled over, their leaves shriveling. But the baby longleafs endured, streaks of green amid the blackened dirt.

A Loblolly Pine "Artemis 1 Moon Tree" sapling is seen at the North Carolina Governor's Mansion, where it is to be planted. (Image credit: NASA) ...

On Wednesday, the school celebrated the planting of a rare second-generation Moon Tree, which was grown from a loblolly pine. The seedling was picked from a group of tree species that launched ...

The special tree, a loblolly pine, was part of a NASA program that centered on seedlings grown from seeds that had been to the Moon and back. In 2022, the seeds journeyed 270,000 miles aboard ...

Members of Claymont High School's science club planted a sycamore sapling that, ... and citizen science to educators and youth nationwide. Seeds that orbited the Moon are from loblolly pine ...

Back when it was a seed, the loblolly pine traveled thousands of miles around the moon. And this was just one seed among about 2,000 - sycamores, sweet gums, Douglas firs, giant sequoias and, of ...