A branch of the Salt Lake County Public Library received an out-of-this world addition this week — and it’s not a novel.

NASA selected the library’s Holladay location to plant a “moon tree” — a seedling that orbited the moon on a recent lunar mission, Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson said during Tuesday’s County Council meeting.

The library was chosen because of its in-depth STEM engagement, Wilson added. A Lego brick-building club meets at the Holladay location, for instance, and more science, technology, engineering and math events and experiments are regularly planned.

The moon tree program is part of NASA’s Artemis campaign to explore the moon for scientific discovery and advancement as NASA prepares for human missions to Mars, according to the Artemis website.

The initiative

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