SSEP | Student Spaceflight Experiments Program

There are currently 3 astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS): Commander Sunita Williams (NASA), and Flight Engineers Aki Hoshide (Japan), and Yuri Malenchenko (Russia). Commander Williams has been conducting all on-orbit operations with the SSEP Antares and Aquiarius II payloads. At 6:51 am ET, Tuesday October 23, 2012, Soyuz TMA-06M will launch from the […]

A Soyuz Vehicle Docked at ISS, Click for Zoom (Photo-credit ESA/NASA) All crew interactions with the SSEP Antares and Aquarius II experiments payloads are undertaken on Crew Interaction Days that are defined relative to the day the payloads ARRIVE on Station (A=0) or the day of UNDOCKING (U=0) when the payload is to be transferred to the […]

For those following along, the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education and NanoRacks are reporting that Station Commander Suni Williams carried out all scheduled Crew Interaction Activities for day A+6 at 7:12 am EDT, October 17. Two experiments were de-activated. Overviews of the two experiments and their student research teams are provided below. […]

For those following along, the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education and NanoRacks are reporting that Station Commander Suni Williams carried out all scheduled Crew Interaction Activities for day A+3 at 11:15 am EDT, October 14. One experiment was activated, three de-activated, and two shaken. The SSEP Mission 2 to ISS: Experiment Log […]

For those following along, the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education and NanoRacks are reporting that Station Commander Suni Williams carried out all scheduled Crew Interaction Activities for day A+1 between 12:20 and 12:50 pm EDT October 12. Three experiments were activated, one deactivated, and one shaken. The SSEP Mission 2 to ISS: […]

The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education and NanoRacks are reporting that 8 experiments scheduled for activation on Crew Interaction Day A=0 have been activated by International Space Station Commander Sunita Williams at 5:20 am EDT today. For full details, go the the SSEP Experiment Log page. SSEP is undertaken by the National […]

At 6:56 am EDT today a robotic arm on the International Space Station captured the Dragon vehicle. Aboard Dragon are Antares, the SSEP Mission 2 to ISS experiments payload, and Aquarius II, the Mission 1 experiments payload. With this milestone, the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) and NanoRacks formally announce the […]

We are now at T minus 8 hours 15 minutes from the historic launch of SpaceX-1 – the first operational flight of a commercial spacecraft for ISS resupply. NASA TV will provide live coverage starting at 7 pm ET, October 7, for scheduled liftoff at 8:35 pm ET. Falcon 9 is operating under an ‘instantaneous launch […]

NanoRacks informed the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education that the Antares payload, carrying the 11 Mission 2 experiment mini-labs, and the Aquarius II payload, carrying 12 Mission 1 experiment mini-labs for re-flight, were integrated into the SpaceX Dragon vehicle on Saturday, October 6, 2012. We are now go for launch, at 8:35 […]

At 4:30 pm Eastern today, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration issued a Press Release on Student Spaceflight Experiment Program (SSEP) Mission 1 and Mission 2 to ISS experiment payloads flying on SpaceX-1, October 7, 2012. The full text of the NASA Press Release is provided below. Over 200 partner institutions – school districts, corporate foundations, […]