Archive | May, 2012

SSEP In the News Update: Extensive Media Coverage of SSEP Mission 1 to ISS on SpaceX Dragon

This past week saw the historic launch of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, and the first berthing of a commercial vehicle with the International Space Station. The Aquarius payload of SSEP Mission 1 to ISS experiments was the only science payload aboard. There was extensive media coverage of the flight of Aquarius on Dragon, reflecting the […]

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VIDEO: NASA ISS Associate Program Scientist Tara Ruttley Talks About the Power of the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program for STEM Education

The following video is from SPACEPORTS, May 23, 2012. NASA Public Affairs Office commentator Pat Ryan talks with Dr. Tara Ruttley, ISS Associate Program Scientist, about the science payload carried in the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, the impact of commercial cargo ships on science activities and the ISS Research & Development Conference in June 2012. Most of […]

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Live Coverage of Dragon Undocking, Reentry, and Splashdown Tomorrow Morning, May 31, 2012 – Note SSEP Mission 1 Aquarius Payload Not Aboard

NASA TV will be providing live coverage of the return to Earth of the Dragon spacecraft. If you’ve been following this historic flight, you might want to tune in, and this post includes a live NASA TV video window. Below the video window is the official NASA Media Advisory for Dragon Coverage. Note that the […]

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SSEP on SpaceX Picked up by SPACE.com

  Hmmm … anybody recognize these patches? Can you say … cool?         SPACE.com http://www.space.com/15720-spacex-dragon-launch-student-experiments.html  MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47452886#.T7Q5R-3lP0N  YAHOO! http://news.yahoo.com/spacex-launching-student-experiments-emblems-1st-space-station-220555112.html   SSEP is undertaken by the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) in partnership with NanoRacks LLC. This on-orbit, real research opportunity for students is enabled through NanoRacks LLC, which is working in […]

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Invitation to the 2012 SSEP National Conference at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, July 2-3, 2012

The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) and the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum (NASM) are proud to host the 2012 SSEP National Conference at the Museum on July 2 and 3, 2012. All students and student teams that were engaged in SSEP experiment design and proposal writing—across all four SSEP flight opportunities to […]

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Official NASA Media Advisory for NASA/SpaceX Launch Addresses SSEP Delegation in Attendance

The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education and NanoRacks would like to call your attention to NASA Media Advisory M12-084, titled,”Updated Coverage for NASA/SpaceX Launch and Mission to Station”, issued May 11, 2012, which includes the following: “Saturday, May 19 (Launch day): A delegation from the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) will be […]

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NASA Honors Communities Across the United States Engaged in SSEP Mission 1 to ISS with a Feature Article

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has honored all the SSEP researchers, their teachers, their families, and communities participating in the historic SSEP Mission 1 to ISS with a feature article at NASA.gov. It is a recognition that these student researchers are part of America’s Space Program in the 21st century, and a tribute to […]

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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.