The launch of SpaceX CRS-18, carrying the SSEP Mission 13 Gemini payload of experiments, is now scheduled for Wednesday, July 24, 2019, 6:24 pm ET. Below is the new NASA Media Advisory, with live broadcast times. Please go to the July 17, 2019 Blog Post for complete details of the flight of Gemini, the […]
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WATCH LIVE: Flight of SSEP Mission 13 ‘Gemini’, Launching on SpaceX CRS-18, Sunday, July 21, 2019, 7:35 pm ET
LAUNCH DELAY: SpaceX CRS-18 now scheduled to launch 6:24 pm ET Wednesday, July 24 Go to this Blog Post for details To readers – if you would like to wish the Mission 13 to ISS student researchers, their teachers, and their communities good luck on the launch of their experiments on SpaceX CRS-18 from Kennedy […]
LIVE VIDEO OF EARTH FROM ISS – A SSEP Teachable Moment
At the top of the SSEP Homepage, there is a section titled “Multimedia”, which includes multimedia resources, each accessible by opening up a ‘toggle’. The multimedia section is meant to provide SSEP students, teachers, and their communities a real world connection to the International Space Station, its crew, and the fact that this vehicle is right […]
New Flight Opportunity for School Districts: Announcing Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Mission 14 to the International Space Station, Starting September 2019
Download a PDF of this Press Release Watch Video Clips describing SSEP: Clip 1 (NASA), Clip 2 (NASA) After reading this Press Release, carefully read the SSEP Homepage that serves as an Executive Summary for the program To receive email notification of breaking program news, subscribe to the SSEP National Blog using the Subscribe Box at the bottom […]
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 […]
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 […]
WATCH LIVE – Launch and Arrival at ISS of Expedition 57 Crew, October 11, 2018
You can watch the launch, docking at ISS, and hatch opening LIVE on the NASA TV portal below. The NASA Media Advisory with live coverage details is also below. October 05, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY M18-149 NASA Television to Air Launch of NASA Astronaut on First Space Mission Astronaut Nick Hague, who joined NASA’s […]
Hurricane Michael from the International Space Station
Video taken from the International Space Station, October 9, 2018. View by expanding to full screen. Cameras outside the International Space Station captured views of Hurricane Michael at 12:13 p.m. and 12:50 p.m. EDT Oct. 9 from an altitude of 255 miles as the storm churned over the Gulf of Mexico moving northwest at 12 miles […]
Super Typhoon Trami from ISS
Super Typhoon Trami as seen from the International Space Station. Photograph taken 19 hours ago by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and posted on Twitter. Click on the image to zoom. Follow all the astronauts currently on Station on Twitter via this aggregated feed. The Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) is a program of […]
THE SOLUTION to the Mission 13 Student Challenge: Understanding Weightlessness – You Want Me to Take a Bathroom Scale Where?
To teachers starting Mission 13 to ISS, this challenge was posted on Thursday, September 18, 2018. It is designed to help you get your students immersed in Mission 13 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. […]