Provided below is the NASA Press Release covering launch operations, crew, and live coverage times on NASA TV for today’s launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 5:17 pm ET, and docking at ISS at 10:57 pm ET. You can watch live using the NASA TV portal below. WATCH THE LAUNCH OF SOYUZ […]
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Hurricane Harvey as Seen from the International Space Station
This video includes views from The International Space Station recorded on August 24, 2017 at 6:15 p.m. Eastern Time.
WATCH LIVE: Flight of SSEP Mission 11 America, Launching on SpaceX CRS-12, Monday, August 14, 2017, 12:31 pm ET
To readers – if you would like to wish the Mission 11 to ISS student researchers, their teachers, and their communities good luck on the launch of their experiments on SpaceX CRS-12 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, you are invited to leave a comment below:) The SSEP Mission 11 to ISS flight experiments payload America is […]
WATCH LIVE: Flight of SSEP M10 Casper, Launching on SpaceX CRS-11, Today, June 1, 2017, 5:55 pm EDT
To readers – if you would like to wish the Mission 10 to ISS student researchers, their teachers, and their communities good luck on the launch today of their experiments on SpaceX CRS-11 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, you are invited to leave a comment below:) The SSEP Mission 10 to ISS flight experiments payload […]
New Flight Opportunity for School Districts: Announcing Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Mission 12 to the International Space Station, Starting September 2017
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 […]
ANNOUNCEMENT: 2017 SSEP National Conference, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC, June 28-29, 2017
The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM), the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE), and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education are proud to host the seventh annual SSEP National Conference at the Museum on Wednesday, June 28 and Thursday, June 29, 2017. All students and student teams that were […]
WATCH LIVE: Flight of SSEP M9 Endeavor, Launching on SpaceX CRS-10, February 18, 2017, 10:01 am EDT
The SSEP Mission 9 to ISS flight experiments payload Endeavor is scheduled to launch tomorrow, Saturday, February 18, 2017, at 10:01 am ET from Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, aboard SpaceX CRS-10. If there is a scrub, NASA will recycle to Sunday, February 19, 2017, with launch at 9:38 am ET. The launch […]
THE SOLUTION to the Mission 11 Student Challenge: Understanding Weightlessness – You Want Me to Take a Bathroom Scale Where?
To teachers starting Mission 11 to ISS, this challenge was posted a week ago on Wednesday, September 14, 2016. It is designed to help you get your students immersed in Mission 11 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 […]
For the 13,500 SSEP Mission 11 to ISS Student Researchers – A Challenge for the Start of Program: Understanding Weightlessness – You Want Me to Take a Bathroom Scale Where?
Note that this Challenge is covered as part of the program start Skype for your community’s Local Team of Mission 11 educators. These Skypes for the Mission 11 communities are being conducted by SSEP National Program Director Dr. Jeff Goldstein through Wednesday, September 21, 2016. This blog post is for teachers in the 21 communities […]
The Tradition Continues – To the Students, Teachers, and Communities Starting SSEP Mission 11 to ISS, Welcome Aboard America’s and Canada’s Space Programs, NASA Johnson Style (with Some One Direction)
It’s been a space program tradition since Mission 5 to ISS. Whenever we start a new SSEP flight opportunity, it’s time for NASA Johnson Style. We can’t imagine a better video to get students (and teachers) in the frame of mind to start Mission 11 to ISS. To all Mission 11 Community Program Directors and […]