Archive | January, 2013

In Recognition of All The Teachers and Administrators That Make SSEP Possible – A Teacher Certificate of Accomplishment

Since the first of six SSEP flight opportunities to date, on the final flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-134) back in May 2011, 18,500 grade 5-14 students have been fully engaged in experiment design and proposal writing, 4,347 proposals have been received from student teams, 53 flight experiments have flown on Space Shuttles or to […]

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NEW: Science Return and Reporting Section on SSEP Website for Conference Presentations and Research Papers

The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education have just launched a new web section at the SSEP Community Network Hubsite, which is dedicated to student team reporting on experiment design and science results. A main reporting page provides an overview of the new section […]

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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.