Archive | April, 2016

How to See ISS Fly Over Your Town – While the Mission 7 Odyssey II Experiments Are Aboard

  Teachers, please pass this post on to your students so they may explore this remarkable sighting opportunity with their parents and families. Depending on your location you might be able to see the International Space Station fly over your town while Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Mission 7 Odyssey II experiments are aboard. Odyssey II […]

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VIDEO: In Honor of the Launch of Mission 7 Odyssey II at 4:43 pm EDT Today, Breathtaking ‘Time Lapse Earth’, Filmed by Astronauts Aboard ISS

  Today marks the ultimate milestone in the lifecycle of a SSEP Mission – launch day. In this case, the launch of the Odyssey II payload of Mission 7 flight experiments. Today we depart Earth and truly venture to the frontiers of space, and in celebration, we thought it would be a good time to share this video by […]

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SSEP FLIGHT OPERATIONS UPDATE: The Flight of Odyssey II, the SSEP Mission 7 Payload Launching April 8, 4:43 pm ET

At 4:43 pm EDT, Friday, April 8, 2016, SpaceX CRS-8 is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, adjoining NASA’s Kennedy Space Center en route to the International Space Station. Aboard the Dragon spacecraft will be the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Odyssey II payload of 25 student experiments. These experiments were originally […]

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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.