Tomorrow’s launch of SpaceX-5 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, has been scrubbed, and reset for NET (No Earlier Than) January 6, 2015. SpaceX-5 is to carry Yankee Clipper II to the International Space Station, the SSEP Mission 6 to ISS payload of experiments that were originally lost with the Orb-3 failure on October […]
Archive | December, 2014
VIDEO: Celebrating Re-Launch of the Mission 6 Yankee Clipper, A Gift – Your Planet from the International Space Station, Time Lapse-EARTH
In celebration of the re-launch of the Yankee Clipper II payload of Mission 6 to ISS experiments on SpaceX-5, and the nearly complete selection of the Mission 7 flight experiments launching in the Spring, the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education wanted to share what […]
The Mission 6 Student Flight Team, Madison Heights, MI – A Highlight
Below is an article featuring the selected student flight team from the SSEP Mission 6 community in Madison Heights, Michigan. SSEP in Madison Heights is lead by two dynamic educators, Randy Speck, Superintendent of the Madison District Public Schools, and Angel Abdulahad, Lead Enrichment Teacher at Wilkinson Middle School. Over the course of Mission 6, […]
The Loss of Orb-3 and SSEP Yankee Clipper: Failure Happens. What we do in the face of failure is what defines us.
I thought it would be important to put up a blog post on the October 28, 2014, loss of Orb-3 and the SSEP Mission 6 Yankee Clipper payload of experiments, something that could capture the experience in that moment. I think it is an important story to share with the thousands of SSEP students across the […]