08.17.07 - Barbara Morgan carries millions of basil seeds to space and returns with millions more.
See other educational opportunities associated with the STS-118 mission and the flight of the first Educator Astronaut.
Learn about America's plan to explore the moon, Mars and beyond.
A photo gallery of images follows astronaut Clay Anderson's experiment to grow basil plants on the International Space Station.
Watch as astronauts on space shuttle mission STS-118 explain plant growth chambers that they are delivering to the International Space Station so crewmembers can grow plants in space.
The cinnamon basil seeds that flew on STS-118 are being packaged at Park Seed Company in Greenwood, S.C.
Students test out their own ideas as part of NASA's Engineering Design Challenge to create a lunar plant growth chamber.
› Read and CommentAt the detention facility where he teaches, Daniel Loewen is using NASA projects to help students get their lives back on track.
› Read and CommentStudents are helping NASA research ways that astronauts might grow plants on the moon.
The 10 million basil seeds that flew in space have moved one step closer to the classroom.