It’s the day of an Artemis II launch attempt, and aboard the Space Launch System rocket will be a small package from New Brunswick. T
National Tree Seed Centre is sending 5 seed species into space
Hannah Rudderham · CBC News
· Posted: Apr 01, 2026 10:56 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
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Darren Derbowka, National Tree Seed Centre co-ordinator, pictured inside Canada’s seed vault holding collections of eastern white pine seedlots. (Submitted by Darren Derbowka)
It’s the day of an Artemis II launch attempt, and aboard the Space Launch System rocket will be a small package from New Brunswick.
The National Tree Seed Centre in Fredericton is sending five seed species on the mission.
“We were confined to a small package of about 20 centimetres by seven centimetres by half a centimetre in size,” said Darren Derbowka, the National Tree Seed Centre co-ordinator.
That’s a total of about 2,600 seeds the centre is sending on the mission, he said.
NASA’s Artemis II lunar mission involves four astronauts, including the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen, who will travel around the moon in the Orion capsule.
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