Archive | January, 2015

ISS Commander Barry Wilmore Begins On-Orbit Operations for SSEP Yankee Clipper II Experiments

A Window on SSEP Spaceflight Operations The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying the Yankee Clipper II payload of Mission 6 experiments was captured by Canadarm2 at the International Space Station (ISS) at 5:54 am EST, Monday, January 12, 2015. Dragon berthed at the Station at 8:56 am EST. Yankee Clipper II was transferred to ISS, and astronaut and […]

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Astronauts Return to U.S. Segment of ISS

Astronauts have returned to the U.S. segment of the International Space Station. It was determined that the emergency was a false alarm, due to a computer problem and not an ammonia leak. From @NASA on Twitter: #Exp42 open US segment hatch & return 3:05pm ET. @AstroTerry & @AstroSamantha sample #ISS air, no ammonia indication. pic.twitter.com/W5MbHNCgqK — […]

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Stunning Photo of SpaceX-5 Launch

From Realtime Image Gallery Photo taken by Mark Staples on January 10, 2015, at Little Lake Santa Fe Waldo, FL, 150 miles NW of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.   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. […]

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NASA Briefing VIdeo: Overview of SSEP, Highlight of Mission 6 Yankee Clipper Experiments

On October 26, 2014, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, VA, NASA conducted a Pre-Flight Science Briefing for the ill-fated Orb-3 launch, which was to carry the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Mission 6 Yankee Clipper payload of experiments to the International Space Station. Dr. Jeff Goldstein, Center Director for the National Center for Earth and […]

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LIFTOFF of SpaceX-5 and SSEP Yankee Clipper II

At 4:47 am EST the SpaceX CRS-5 Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The 17 student research experiments comprising the SSEP Mission 6 to ISS Yankee Clipper II payload were aboard. Also aboard were 28 mission patches to accompany the Mission 6 experiments, which were selected […]

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NASA Press Release on Yankee Clipper Re-flight, w NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden

NASA issued the Press Release below on January 5, 2014. The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education, the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education and NanoRacks are honored that NASA felt it appropriate to issue a release dedicated to the student researchers across the U.S. and Canada for Student Spaceflight Experiments Program […]

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Live Coverage: Re-flight of Yankee Clipper II – the SSEP Mission 6 to ISS Payload of 17 Experiments Launching on SpaceX-5, 6:20 am ET, January 6, 2015

We are a ‘go’ for liftoff of SpaceX-5 on Tuesday, January 6, 2015. As part of the cargo being transported to the International Space Station will be the SSEP Mission 6 to ISS Yankee Clipper II payload of experiments originally lost on Orb-3 on October 28, 2014. Launch of SpaceX-5 is scheduled for 6:20 am EST, from Cape Canaveral Air Force […]

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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.