At 10:58 am ET yesterday we watched the successful launch of Orb-D1 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), Wallops Island, Virginia. SSEP delegations from Russell County, Virginia; Howard County, Maryland; San Marino, California; and NCESSE were on hand. Aboard the Cygnus spacecraft is the Falcon I payload of student experiments for SSEP Mission 3 to […]
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NASA TV LIVE COVERAGE, #SSEP1 LIVE TWITTER FEED: Antares Liftoff, September 18, 10:50 am ET
We are now at T minus 20 hours 21 minutes from the historic launch of Orb-D1 – the first flight of the Cygnus vehicle to berth with the International Space Station. NASA TV will provide live coverage of liftoff of the Antares rocket starting at 10:15 am EDT, September 18, for scheduled liftoff at 10:50 am […]
7 SSEP Experiments and All Mission 3 Mission Patches Aboard Antares Rocket – The Flight of the SSEP Falcon I Payload, Wednesday, September 18, 2013,10:50 am EDT
As this post is being published, we are now at T minus 1 Day, 2 Hours, 10 minutes from liftoff. The Mission 3 to ISS clock at right is ticking down to the currently scheduled launch of the Orbital Sciences Antares rocket on Wednesday, September 18 (see the NASA Consolidate Launch Schedule) – the mission: Orb-D1 (Orbital […]
For Mission 5 Student Researchers – A Challenge: Understanding Weightlessness – You Want Me to Take a Bathroom Scale Where?
I’ve heard a lot about this weightlessness stuff, with astronauts having a great time floating around. So I wanted to find out first hand what’s going on up there. Since they don’t have a spare seat on the next flight to low Earth orbit (at least not yet), I looked far and wide to find […]
For the 6,950 Students Starting Mission 5 to ISS this Week, Let’s Get Excited: A Repost of NASA Johnson Style
The Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) is a program of the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) in the U.S., and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education internationally. It is enabled through a strategic partnership with NanoRacks LLC, working with NASA under a Space Act Agreement as part of the utilization of the […]
The Student Spaceflight Experiments Program: An Update for the Start of the 2013-14 Academic Year
After a summer away, welcome back! The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education, the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education, and NanoRacks would like to welcome back from summer break all SSEP participating student researchers, teachers, communities leaders, National Partners, and Local Partners. We would also like to welcome the 15 communities […]
SSEP National Conference, July 2-3, 2013, at Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Delegations Arrive from Around the Nation
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 2013 SSEP National Conference at the Museum on July 2 and 3, 2013. Delegations from 12 SSEP communities will be in attendance, with oral presentations from 15 student microgravity […]
Mission 4 to ISS Flight Experiments Selected: 11 Communities, 66 Institutional Partners, 3,080 Grade 5-12 Students Engaged in Microgravity Experiment Design, 744 Proposals Received, 11 Selected for Flight
Mission 4 is Community’s First SSEP Flight Opportunity: Yellow Mission 4 is Community’s at Least Second SSEP Flight Opportunity: Green View SSEP Mission 4 to ISS Communities on a larger map The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE), the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education, and NanoRacks are excited to announce that 11 student flight […]
Ground Control to Major Tom – Canadian Astronaut, ISS Commander, and Rock Star Chris Hadfield
To SSEP communities everywhere — you NEED to watch this. O Canada. This post is dedicated to SSEP Mission 3 community Stonewall, Manitoba, Canada, whose student flight team — current 5th graders and future Doctors Enns, Good, and Petricig are awaiting launch of their flight experiment on SpaceX-3 Dragon out of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, […]
To School Districts: Announcing Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Mission 5 to the International Space Station for 2013-14
Download a PDF of this Press Release After reading this Press Release, be sure to read the SSEP Homepage Subscribe to receive email updates on the SSEP using the Subscribe Box at the bottom of the right column. Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Mission 5 to the International Space Station Opportunity for Schools to Engage Grade 5-16 […]