Author Archive | Jeff Goldstein

Images This Week from ISS – Courtesy of @ISS_CASIS

Check out these spectacular images captured by the #ISS #Exp41 crew this week! pic.twitter.com/l3z7F3v4Rf — ISS National Lab (@ISS_CASIS) October 10, 2014   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 […]

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New Flight Opportunity for School Districts: Announcing Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Mission 8 to the International Space Station, Starting February 2015

Download a PDF of this Press Release Watch Video: A Program Overview After reading this Press Release, be sure to read the SSEP Homepage that serves as an Executive Summary for the program Subscribe to receive email notification of breaking news on SSEP using the Subscribe Box at the bottom of the right column. Student Spaceflight Experiments […]

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BREAKING NEWS – NASA PRESS CONFERENCE 4:00 PM ET TODAY: America’s Return to Sending Astronauts to Space

To students, teachers, and communities across the SSEP network- Since retirement of the Space Shuttle fleet after the July  2011 flight of STS-135, Atlantis – which carried Intrepid, the second SSEP experiments payload – transport of all U.S. astronauts to and from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) required Russian Soyuz vehicles. America is now on track […]

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THE SOLUTION to the Mission 7 Student Challenge: Understanding Weightlessness – You Want Me to Take a Bathroom Scale Where?

To teachers starting Mission 7 to ISS, this challenge was posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2014. It is designed to help you get your students immersed in Mission 7 microgravity experiment design by first exploring the concept of microgravity (often referred to as the phenomenon of ‘weighlessness’). As promised, here is the solution to the Challenge.    […]

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For SSEP Mission 7 to ISS Student Researchers – A Challenge: Understanding Weightlessness – You Want Me to Take a Bathroom Scale Where?

This post is for teachers in the 25 communities across the U.S. starting SSEP Mission 7 to ISS this week. You are invited to use this challenge to get the nearly 10,000 students immersed in Mission 7 microgravity experiment design to start thinking about the concept of microgravity (often referred to as the phenomenon of […]

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For Mission 7 Communities Starting SSEP – NASA JSC Interview: Dr. Jeff Goldstein, SSEP Program Director, on Orb-1 Launch

An Introduction to the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Mission 7 to the International Space Station (ISS) starts tomorrow, September 8, 2014. At least 25 communities across the U.S. are participating in what is the ninth SSEP flight opportunity in just 4 years. In support of Mission 7, this is a repost of an […]

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The Tradition Continues – A ‘NASA Johnson Style’ Welcome Aboard America’s Space Program to 10,000 Students Now Starting SSEP Mission 7 to ISS

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 (below) that will get students and teachers in the frame of mind to start Mission 7 to ISS. We want everyone to recognize that what they are about to embark on is […]

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SSEP Impact: New NASA Feature Article on Research Results Reported by Student Teams at 2014 SSEP National Conference, July 2-3, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education, and Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education, are proud to report that NASA Johnson Space Center has written a feature article on science results reported by SSEP student research teams at the 2014 SSEP National Conference held July 2-3 at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. […]

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NASA Johnson Space Center Feature Article: SSEP Mission 5 Research To Be Conducted Aboard Station Starting Today

The Orb-2/Cygnus vehicle successfully berthed with the International Space Station (ISS) at 8:53 am ET, yesterday, July 16, 2014. Stacy Hamel, the SSEP Flight Operations Manager, has alerted all Mission 5 student research teams that we expect the first of the Charlie Brown experiments to be activated today by crew aboard ISS. Four student teams are […]

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The Flight of Charlie Brown – the SSEP Mission 5 Payload: WATCH LIVE Berthing of Cygnus to ISS

At 12:52 pm ET, July 13, 2014, the Orb-2 vehicle with the SSEP Mission 5 Charlie Brown payload of experiments blasted off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), Wallops Island, VA. The Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled to rendezvous with the International Space Station, Wednesday, July 16, 2014, with grappling at 6:39 am ET, followed by […]

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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 NanoRacks LLC, which is 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.