Tom Estill, an Aerospace Education Specialist from NASA's Goddard Space Center, spent last Friday with Randolph Elementary School students. Kids from five classes visited with Estill and helped with a NASA agricultural experiment. With him Estill brought basil seeds that had been in orbit on the International Space Station. Along with a control group, students planted these seeds (as well as tomato seeds from the Canadian Space Agency and second generation moon sycamore seeds from the Apollo 14 mission) and will compare their growth to normal earth basil. According to Estill, information like this is invaluable to NASA as they plan a mission to Mars in the future. (Herald / Tim Calabro)