Archive | April, 2012

SPECIAL UPDATE: Aquarius Payload Integration – Houston in Receipt of Mission 1 Mini-Labs for Flight of the Dragon

April 6, 2012, 10:00 pm EDT: Student flight experiment teams have reached a milestone. NanoRacks in Houston is now in receipt of 14 of 15 Fluids Mixing Enclosure (FME) mini-laboratories for integration into the Aquarius payload. The mini-labs were to be delivered today, but there’s a hitch — always is with real science. (And it’s not […]

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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.