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 29, which is scheduled to bring the payload back to Earth on July 1, 2012. See the SSEP Mission 1 to the ISS Experiment Log for more information on the activities conducted with the payload during its stay aboard the station.

 


The SSEP on-orbit research opportunity is enabled through NanoRacks LLC, which is working in partnership with NASA under a Space Act Agreement as part of the utilization of the International Space Station as a National Laboratory.

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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.