Archive | October, 2018

Crew Safe – Rocket Failure after 4:40 am ET Launch of Expedition 57 Crew, October 11, 2018

  October 11, 2018 RELEASE 18-089 NASA Statement on Soyuz MS-10 Launch Abort The following is a statement about Thursday’s Soyuz MS-10 launch aboard to the International Space Station: “The Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station at 4:40 a.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 11 (2:40 p.m. in Baikonur) carrying […]

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Watch – Orbital Trajectory Takes ISS Directly Over Eye of Hurricane Michael, 12:58 pm ET Today, as it Makes Landfall as Category 4 Storm

Video taken from the International Space Station, October 10, 2018. View by expanding to full screen. Cameras outside the International Space Station capture views of Hurricane Michael at 12:58 p.m. EDT Oct. 10 from an altitude of 255 miles as the storm makes landfall as a major hurricane over the Florida panhandle. Download: https://go.nasa.gov/2yeePqK Footage Credit:NASA […]

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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.