Archive | March, 2013

NCESSE, Clarke Institute, and Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Announce 2013 SSEP National Conference to be Held at Museum, July 2-3, 2013

The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM), the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE), and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education are proud to host the 2013 SSEP National Conference at the Museum on July 2 and 3, 2013. All students and student teams that were engaged in SSEP experiment design […]

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SSEP Mission 3 Student Researchers from Willis Texas Honored by Texas State Legislature

The Texas State legislature honored Willis Independent School District and their student microgravity researchers on February 28, 2013, for their participation in SSEP Mission 3 to the International Space Station. State Representative Brandon Creighton is addressing the legislature in the video below, which was made available by Willis ISD. Read about Willis Texas involvement in Mission 3 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.