NASA TV will be providing live coverage of the return to Earth of the Soyuz 29S spacecraft with astronauts Oleg Kononenko (Russia), Don Pettit (USA), and Andre Kuipers (ESA). Also aboard the vehicle will be the SSEP Aquarius payload of experiments that was launched on SpaceX Dragon on May 22, 2012. If you’ve been following […]
Archive | June, 2012
In Our Own Words – SSEP Student Researcher Ryan Puri at Kennedy Space Center Press Site for Launch of SpaceX Dragon, May 2012
Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Co-Investigator Ryan Puri was part of the delegation from San Marino High School, in San Marino, CA, that was in attendance for the May 19, 2012, launch attempt of the SpaceX Dragon vehicle. The Aquarius payload of SSEP Mission 1 to ISS experiments aboard Dragon included the San Marino experiment: […]
Major Milestone: Activity with SSEP Mission 1 Payload aboard ISS Complete
NanoRacks informed NCESSE at 5:42 pm EDT today, June 29, 2012, that the last activity scheduled to be conducted with the SSEP Mission 1 payload, Aquarius, aboard the International Space Station has been completed. Experiment SSEPM1-09 (E. coli) was activated at 21:15 GMT (5:15 pm EDT). The crew then stowed the SSEP payload in Soyuz […]
SSEP Mission 1 Payload Status Update
The SSEP Mission 1 payload, Aquarius, arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on May 25, 2012. Over the past month, ISS crew members have worked with the payload, activating and deactivating experiments, as required. During this time, real microgravity science experiments designed by student teams from across the United […]
In Our Own Words – Right Place, Right Time, Dr. Barrett Caldwell, NASA Indiana Space Grant Consortium Director at SpaceX Launch, May 22, 2012, “No bucks, No Buck Rogers”
Since SSEP began 2 years ago, we have periodically invited guest bloggers to write essays on what this program has meant to their communities. A list of these essays is found at the top of the In Our Own Words page, at the SSEP Community Network Hubsite. We recently invited SSEP attendees at Kennedy Space Center […]
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Launched June 7, 2010, SSEP Turns 2
We thought this was worthy of a blog post:) Looking back over the last 2 years, pretty cool. Leave a birthday wish below if you’d like. ps- Here was the very first post.
Student Microgravity Experiments Selected to Fly Aboard First Operational Flight of SpaceX Dragon in September 2012
11 Experiments Chosen from over 1,100 Proposed will Fly to International Space Station Via Commercial STEM Education Initiative For Immediate Release June 7, 2012 Program Description Video Clip NEW NASA video on SSEP Download a PDF of this Release WASHINGTON – The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) in partnership with […]
NCESSE and the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum Present the Student Research Teams Attending the 2012 SSEP National Conference, July 2-3
The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) and the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum (NASM) are proud to present the student research teams presenting at the 2012 SSEP National Conference at the Museum on July 2 and 3, 2012. Student teams from three SSEP […]
Real Spaceflight All the Time, the Adventure Continues: Problem with SSEP Mission 1 Aquarius Payload
On Friday, June 1, 2012, at 8:32 am EDT, the communication below was sent to all SSEP Community Program Directors for Mission 1 to ISS, and to all Teacher Facilitators for student research teams with a flight experiment contained in the Aquarius payload aboard ISS. There are many students following along with the flight of […]