Archive | January, 2011

NEW OPPORTUNITY: How to Participate in SSEP on the FINAL FLIGHT OF THE U.S. SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM, Shuttle Atlantis (STS-135)

The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education ANNOUNCES AN IMMEDIATE AND HISTORIC OPPORTUNITY for school districts across the U.S. and Canada (grades 5-12), and for community colleges across the U.S., to come aboard the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) for STS-135, the proposed final flight of Shuttle Atlantis—and the final flight of the […]

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SSEP Important Update: January 13, 2011

Beginning with this post, we will be periodically posting an UPDATE at this SSEP National Blog, to track multiple aspects of SSEP including critical deadlines. Please encourage all students, teachers, and individuals interested in following SSEP to subscribe to this Blog for email notification of new posts. You can subscribe at the bottom of the right […]

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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 DreamUp PBC and NanoRacks LLC, which are working with NASA under a Space Act Agreement as part of the utilization of the International Space Station as a National Laboratory. SSEP is the first pre-college STEM education program that is both a U.S. national initiative and implemented as an on-orbit commercial space venture.