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In The News – SSEP on STS-134, Final Flight of Shuttle Endeavour

View SSEP STS-134 Communities on a larger map SSEP on STS-134, the Final Flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour Experiment Design Competition and Selection of Flight Experiments: Fall 2010 Flight to ISS: launched May 16, 2011; returned to Earth June 1, 2011   Last revised: February 6, 2018 SSEP on STS-134 Media Articles: 108   National and International […]

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Update: Schedule for Harvesting STS-134 Experiment Samples

The STS-134 Harvesting of Experiment Samples page has been updated to reflect the new harvesting schedule based on the current landing date of Endeavour of 2:32 am on Wednesday, June 1. You can access the page at: http://ssep.ncesse.org/current-flight-opportunities/sts-134-final-flight-of-shuttle-endeavour/sts-134-harvesting-of-experiment-samples/ All STS-134 teams are urged to review the schedule, which has the experiment samples arriving at the […]

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8:00 pm May 5, 2011: STS-134 Launch

NCESSE received word from NanoRacks/ITA late this afternoon that today’s meeting at NASA did not establish a definitive launch date, and that the launch is now defined as No Earlier Than (NET) May 12, which is a change from this morning’s No Earlier Than May 10. Our payload operations must therefore drive against a May […]

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CRITICAL UPDATE to STS-134 Launch Planning Page

The clock is ticking (backwards). The excitement is palpable (yes?) Student researchers (researchers in every sense of the word) are getting ready for the flight of their experiments on Endeavour. Thousands of students, teachers, administrators, and family members across each community are cheering them on, like giddy fans of a local baseball team. SSEP Community […]

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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.