Author Archive | Jeff Goldstein

On August 31, 2010, the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program officially became operational, with grade 5-12 student-designed experiments scheduled to fly on Shuttle Endeavour, the flight of STS-134, launching February 26, 2011. Over the last month, 16 communities have formally come aboard as the SSEP Community Network; the SSEP website (http://ssep.ncesse.org) has been fully revised; and […]

To all representatives of school districts and schools interested in the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) opportunity aboard STS-134, the flight of Endeavour 26 February 2011, you are invited to take part in a webinar. Below is the webinar announcement from American Aeropace Advisors. I will be presenting the agenda item on SSEP. Best wishes, […]

Hello everyone- NASA has formally rescheduled the launch of STS-134 from mid-November 2010 to 4:19 pm EST – Feb 26, 2011. See: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts134/index.html You will recall that moving forward with SSEP required a delay until at least mid-January 2011.  On our Critical Timeline found on the How to Participate page we also stated that NASA […]

There are now many community leaders who are interested in bringing SSEP to their community, and are actively approaching potential funders. In many cases, these funders were identified when the SSEP Team provided a tutorial on easy-to-navigate online funding databases that can do a search for funders in a particular state or locale. See THIS […]

Impact of Underwriting The SSEP Team has been able to secure underwriting for a number of SSEP national program activities, including: the ongoing development and support of this web site; the development of the custom SSEP web sites to be provided to participating communities; and staff time for rollout of the SSEP, including national dissemination […]

We recognize that as good as a program might be, in tough financial times funding is very tight. Our expectation has been that school districts would not and could not underwrite the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) with internal funds. From the launch of the SSEP we have therefore made a commitment to assisting communities […]

We have had a number of request in the past week for more baseline options for program participation, to both reduce cost and to allow single schools to participate if a district-wide approach will not work for them. To provide maximum flexibility for participation in the SSEP we have therefore defined 3 possible levels of […]