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Bo Lowery, SSEP Community Program Co-Director for Jefferson County, Kentucky, Picks Up Experiment Samples

By on June 3, 2011 in Program News

Bo Lowery, the SSEP Community Program Co-Director for Jefferson County, Kentucky (The Academy @Shawnee), personally traveled to Kennedy Space Center to pick up the harvested experiment samples for their experiment The Effect of Micro-gravity on the Viability of Lactobacillus GG.

Grades 9, 10, and 11, The Academy @Shawnee
Principal Investigator: Jade Burton
Co-Investigators: Ben Bommarrito, Alejandro Cid, Miranda Fitz, Cody Harral, Ashleigh Keister, and Amber Walters
Teacher Facilitator: Imogen Herrick, Science Teacher

Ron Jones, Deputy Program Manager for SSEP, (at left) hands the package with samples returned from space to a happy Bo. We’re sure Bo couldn’t wait to get it back home!


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The Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) is a program of the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) in the U.S., and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education internationally. It is enabled through a strategic partnership with DreamUp PBC and NanoRacks LLC, which are working with NASA under a Space Act Agreement as part of the utilization of the International Space Station as a National Laboratory. SSEP is the first pre-college STEM education program that is both a U.S. national initiative and implemented as an on-orbit commercial space venture.