‘Awesome’, ‘tastes good’, ‘kind of like Arugula’ and ‘that’s fresh’ are the responses of Astronauts Scott Kelly, Kjell Lindgren, and Kimiya Yui of Japan after taking their first bites of food grown on the International Space Station on Monday, August 10, 2015. The astronauts sampled fresh red romaine lettuce, the first food to be grown, […]
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Loss of SpaceX CRS 7 and Mission 7 Odyssey
SpaceX CRS-7 suffered a critical failure and exploded about 1 minute after launch with complete loss of vehicle. We are expecting a post-event News Conference on NASA TV but currently the expectation is no earlier than 12:30 pm ET. A NASA TV portal is provided below. After the explosion all visitors at the Kennedy Space Center […]
WATCH LIVE: Launch of SSEP Mission 7 Odyssey, TODAY 10:21 am ET
Today, at 10:21 am ET, SpaceX CRS-7 is launching from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, adjacent to Kennedy Space Center. The vehicle carries the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Mission 7 to ISS Odyssey payload of student experiments. The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) invites you to watch the launch live, […]
Pretty Powerful Food for Thought: ISS and the Moon – A SSEP Teachable Moment
Sometimes a photo can speak volumes about scale. The photo of the Moon below was taken by Theirry Legault on December 20, 2010, when the International Space Station (ISS) just happened to pass in front of the Moon as seen from Theirry’s location on Earth. Look closely, do you see ISS? Now for the fun […]
LIVE VIDEO OF EARTH FROM ISS – A SSEP Teachable Moment
Last month, at the top of the SSEP Homepage, we added a new section titled “Multimedia”, which includes currently 3 multimedia resources, each accessible by opening up a ‘toggle’. The new 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 […]
VIDEO: Time Lapse Earth, Celebrating SSEP Mission 7 Flight Experiments to ISS in June on SpaceX-7, and 3,600 Mission 8 Students Now in Proposal Writing Home Stretch
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.