NCESSE, in concert with ITA and NanoRacks, has very carefully defined the milestones and specifications for the harvesting of experiment samples and their return to your SSEP Student Team. The detailed Critical Timeline for Harvesting flows directly from the detailed Critical Timeline for Sample Submission on the STS-134 Submission of Experiment Samples for Flight page.
All Student Teams and Teacher Facilitators are asked to immediately review the new STS-134 Harvesting of Experiment Samples page. It can always be accessed through the “Current Flight Opportunities” button in the navigation banner at the top of any SSEP web page.
Given that Teams will begin shipping their experiment samples to Kennedy shortly, there is a deadline of Friday April 15 (today) for you to determine if you want your harvested samples FedExed back to you. The important decision — do you want to include a FedEx airbill in your shipment of experiment samples in order to provide for the return of your harvested samples. All teams should have already made this decision given the STS-134 Submission of Experiment Samples for Flight page was updated on April 5, 2011 to read:
“A HEADS-UP: WE EXPECT THAT EACH STUDENT TEAM WILL BE *REQUIRED* TO INCLUDE IN THEIR SHIPMENT OF SAMPLES TO KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, A COMPLETED FedEx AIRBILL FOR RETURN OF THEIR SAMPLES. A COMPLETED AIRBILL WILL REQUIRE YOUR FedEx ACCOUNT NUMBER OR A CREDIT CARD NUMBER WRITTEN ON THE AIRBILL.”
This assumed that you were not sending a representative down to Kennedy to pick up the harvested samples.
The new STS-134 Harvesting of Experiment Samples page includes all the details for filling out your FedEx airbill for inclusion in your shipment.
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