Information to be determined is in RED TEXT below. Information that has changed since this post went live on December 3 is in GREEN TEXT below. Last update of this page: December 6, 2020, 7:45 am ET NOTE: All dates and times below have now been updated to reflect the launch delay from 12/5/20 to […]
Author Archive | Jeff Goldstein
THE SOLUTION to the Mission 15 Student Challenge: Understanding Weightlessness – You Want Me to Take a Bathroom Scale Where?
To teachers starting Mission 15 to ISS, this challenge was posted on Monday, September 28, 2020. It is designed to help you get your students immersed in Mission 15 microgravity experiment design by first exploring with them the concept of microgravity (the technical term for the phenomenon of ‘weightlessness’). As promised, here is the solution to the Challenge. […]
To All Student Researchers Now Engaged in SSEP Mission 15 to ISS – A Challenge for the Start of Program: Understanding Weightlessness – You Want Me to Take a Bathroom Scale Where?
To all SSEP Mission 15 student microgravity researchers, just before his return to Earth on Soyuz 33S, on May 13, 2013, Expedition 35 International Space Station Commander and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield – the first Canadian to walk in space –released this video. Watch Chris (and his guitar) and see what weightlessness looks like. When watching this movie you’re […]
Help Select the Two Official Mission Patches for SSEP Mission 14 to ISS – You’re Invited to Vote for Your Favorite Patch Through September 28, 2020
If you are new to the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) you’re invited to read the Home Page, which is an Executive Summary of the program. Students, teachers, family members, and other stakeholders across your community are invited to select the two Official Mission Patches for SSEP Mission 14 to the International Space Station (ISS). Replicas of these patches will be […]
WATCH HISTORY LIVE TODAY – Launch of Astronauts on SpaceX Demo-2 Mission 3:22 pm ET, May 30, 2020
A Unique Perspective The historic launch today is being extensively covered by the media. With this post, I wanted to provide a unique SSEP perspective on this milestone for the U.S. space program. The last time U.S. astronauts launched into space aboard a U.S. rocket was on July 8, 2011, with STS-135 – the […]
SSEP Teachable Moment – WATCH LIVE – Video of Earth from the International Space Station, with Music
To Teachers: you can pass this post on to your students as a home activity, so they can watch live video of the Earth from the International Space Station. Feedback on this Teachable Moment is welcome. Feel free to leave a comment at the bottom of the post. Concepts addressed: Physics and Space: a spacecraft in Low Earth […]
SSEP Teachable Moment – Where Above the Earth is the International Space Station Right Now?
To Teachers: you can pass this post on to your students as a home activity, so they can track the International Space Station as it flies over the surface of Earth. Feedback on this Teachable Moment is welcome. Feel free to leave a comment at the bottom of the post. Concepts addressed: Physics and Space: characteristics […]
WATCH LIVE: 8:00 PM ET, TONIGHT, 4/30/20: Virtual Concert Hosted by the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum – “Space Songs: Through the Distance”, with Sting
To all SSEP communities – we understand this is very late notice, but we just found out about this remarkable space-oriented virtual concert. See the list of performers in the invitation below from the National Air and Space Museum, a National Partner on the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program. We hope you can still get word […]
SSEP Teachable Moment – How To See A Very Bright International Space Station Fly Over Your Home
To Teachers: you can pass this post on to your students as a home activity, so they can see the International Space Station fly overhead at night with their parents and families. Also note that you can embed the ‘Spot the Station’ widget below on any website. Feedback on this Teachable Moment is welcome. Feel […]
WATCH LIVE: April 17, 2020 Return to Earth of Astronauts Morgan, Meir, and Skripochka, and a Song by Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield (with a Shout-out to Our 2 Canadian SSEP Communities)
In honor of the Soyuz MS-15 return to Earth this Friday with astronauts Andrew Morgan (USA), Jessica Meir (USA) and Oleg Skripochka (Russia), we post the following video. Our hope is this event will excite the current SSEP Student Researchers and teachers and remind former SSEP Student Researchers and teachers of their SSEP experience. We have also posted below the […]