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Reach Museum seeks city park site for ‘Artemis’ sycamore grown from seed that orbited Artemis I
Summary
Pauline Shaffer of the Reach Museum asked the Parks & Recreation Commission to consider hosting an ‘Artemis tree’ sapling (a sycamore grown from a seed that orbited Artemis I). The Museum and partners plan educational programming, citizen science monitoring and interpretive signage; the sapling currently is at a nursery in Pasco.
Pauline Shaffer, education manager at the Reach Museum, presented a proposal to the Parks and Recreation Commission on July 9 to plant an “Artemis tree” — a sycamore sapling grown from a seed that orbited the moon on NASA’s Artemis I mission.
Shaffer said the sapling is currently about seven feet tall and is being cared for at a nursery in Pasco while partners identify an appropriate planting site. The Reach Museum and partners (Silas Education and WSU Tri-Cities College of Education) initially approached Richland School District to host the tree at Richland High…
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