Two seeds that traveled around the moon find a permanent home in eastern Idaho

POCATELLO – Two trees that traveled over a million miles as seeds have finally found a home in Idaho.

Idaho State University announced in May that the Idaho Museum of Natural History had just received a “moon tree” from NASA, and American Falls High School received one in June 2024. The university and the high school are two among hundreds of locations across the country that have received one of these moon trees as a part of a broad education initiative that inspires students to ask questions about space travel.

“A moon tree on campus will become part of outreach to our programs, bringing a piece of space exploration here to campus and challenging K-12 and college students to ask questions about what it means for a seed to travel to the moon and back,” reads an excerpt from the museum’s