We thought it would be a great time to share this video by Bruce Berry. It is a gift from past astronauts aboard the International Space Station who captured our world from orbit in stunning detail. We wanted to share this as a celebration of SSEP Missions 7 and 8 to ISS – for the student […]
New Flight Opportunity for School Districts: Announcing Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Mission 9 to the International Space Station for 2015-16 Academic Year
Download a PDF of this Press Release Watch Video: A Program Overview After reading this Press Release, be sure to 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 of the […]
WATCH LIVE: ISS Change of Command, Astronaut Return to Earth, and a Fitting Song
International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 42 Commander Barry Wilmore (USA), and Flight Engineers Alexander Samokutyaev (Russia) and Elena Serova (Russia) will be returning to Earth on Wednesday, March 11, 2015, in a Soyuz spacecraft. You can watch LIVE, in the NASA TV window below, the ISS change of command ceremony on March 10, and hatch closure, undocking, […]
THE SOLUTION to the Mission 8 Student Challenge: Understanding Weightlessness – You Want Me to Take a Bathroom Scale Where?
To teachers starting Mission 8 to ISS, this challenge was posted a week ago on Wednesday, February 25, 2015. It is designed to help you get your students immersed in Mission 8 microgravity experiment design by first exploring the concept of microgravity (often referred to as the phenomenon of ‘weightlessness’). As promised, here is the solution to […]
A Tribute from One Space Explorer to Another
pic.twitter.com/ErjTLgCIrL — Terry W. Virts (@AstroTerry) February 28, 2015 Massachusetts from the International Space Station. The science officer of the Constitution-class Starship Enterprise (NCC-1701) was born and grew up in Boston.
For SSEP Mission 8 to ISS Student Researchers – A Challenge: Understanding Weightlessness – You Want Me to Take a Bathroom Scale Where?
This post is for teachers in the 14 communities across the U.S. and Canada starting SSEP Mission 8 to ISS this week. You are invited to use this challenge to get the nearly 4,000 students immersed in Mission 8 microgravity experiment design to start thinking about the concept of microgravity (often referred to as the […]
For Mission 8 Communities Starting SSEP – NASA Pre-Flight Briefing with an SSEP Overview by Dr. Jeff Goldstein, Program Director
An Introduction to the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Mission 8 to the International Space Station (ISS) started Monday, February 23, 2015.. There are 14 participating communities in Mission 8 – 11 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada. Mission 8 to ISS is the tenth SSEP flight opportunity since program inception in 2010, just 4.5 […]
LIVE COVERAGE: Be Part of the SSEP Adventure – Watch Spacewalks this Week at the International Space Station
International Space Station (ISS) Commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore (USA) and Flight Engineer Terry Virts (USA) will be conducting three spacewalks this week and you can watch live on NASA TV, right here in the video window below. It is exciting to know that Commander Wilmore operated all 17 of the SSEP Mission 6 to ISS experiments […]
The Tradition Continues – To 3,800 Students Now Starting SSEP Mission 8 to ISS, Welcome Aboard America’s and Canada’s Space Program, NASA Johnson Style
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 (see below) that will get students and teachers in the frame of mind to start Mission 8 to ISS. We want everyone to recognize that what they are about to embark upon […]
Scientific American Showcases Student Spaceflight Experiments Program
Scientific American Frontiers for Young Minds just published an article on the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP). Author Amanda Baker did a superb job capturing the objectives for SSEP in the context of STEM education and as an authentic immersion experience in research. SSEP is one of three competitions highlighted in the series Not Your […]