It’s now a space program tradition. Whenever we start a new SSEP flight opportunity, it’s time for NASA Johnson Style. It’s a video (see below) that will get students and teachers in the frame of mind to start Mission 8 to ISS. We want everyone to recognize that what they are about to embark upon […]
Archive | 2015
Scientific American Showcases Student Spaceflight Experiments Program
Scientific American Frontiers for Young Minds just published an article on the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP). Author Amanda Baker did a superb job capturing the objectives for SSEP in the context of STEM education and as an authentic immersion experience in research. SSEP is one of three competitions highlighted in the series Not Your […]
Live Coverage: The Flight of Yankee Clipper 2 – SSEP Mission 6 Payload Returns to Earth Today, Unberth at ISS, 2:09 PM EST
The SSEP Mission 6 to ISS Yankee Clipper II payload of student experiments is set to return to Earth today aboard the SpaceX-5 Dragon spacecraft, the same vehicle that brought it to ISS on January 12, 2015. The fifth and final Crew Interactions with the Mission 6 experiments were carried out on February 8, 2015, […]
Super Bowl XLIX and the International Space Station
Did you watch the Super Bowl? Hey, sports fans, how’s this for a teachable moment. So how big is the International Space Station? CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO ZOOM Upper graphic credit: NASA; Lower screen shot credit: NBC The Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) is a program of the National Center for Earth and […]
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 […]
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 — […]
BREAKING: U.S. Side of International Space Station Evacuated
Expedition 42 astronauts on the U.S. side of the International Space Station have moved to the Russian segment of ISS after an alarm at 3:00 am CST this morning pointed to a possible ammonia leak. Currently, there is no ‘concrete data’ indicating an ammonia leak, and this may have resulted from a problem with a sensor. From NBC News, 8:32 am EST, […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]