Private Sector Effort Offers Real Research Opportunity for Grade 5-16 Students aboard International Space Station, 50,000 Expected to Participate Next Phase of Bold New STEM Education Program that Attracted National Attention with Student Experiments on Final Flights of Shuttles Endeavour and Atlantis, and Provided Participation to 30,700 Students Sunday, July 31, 2011 Video Overview of […]
Archive | July, 2011
SSEP In The News: 10 More Stories Just Added
The following stories have just been added to the SSEP In the News page at the SSEP Community Network Hubsite, bringing the total number of stories to 114 — National Eleven More Feature Article, NASA.gov, July 12, 2011 http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/eleven-more.html SSEP on STS-135 Hartford, Connecticut Hartford students get experiment back from […]
Welcome Home Atlantis! LIVE VIDEO of Harvesting of Experiment Samples from STS-135
Atlantis touched down at 5:57 a.m. EDT, this morning, ending 30 years of U.S. Space Shuttle Operations. Aboard her, for 200 orbits of Earth, was the payload containing SSEP experiments from student teams across the nation. The video below provides Atlantis’ approach to Kennedy Space Center and landing. We received confirmation this morning from […]
Welcome Home Astronauts and Goldfish Embryos!
Atlantis has landed safely at Kennedy Space Center, and we will soon be reunited with our space-fish! Depending on when the samples are unloaded from the shuttle, we should have the embryos in hand either tomorrow or Saturday. Dr. Mark … Continue reading →
NASA Honors the SSEP Communities Flying on STS-135 With Feature Articles at NASA.gov
This past year has been a humbling experience for the staff here at the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education and the thousands of students and teachers in the 27 communities participating in the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program. Enabled by NanoRacks Space Act Agreement with NASA, we’ve all had the adventure of a lifetime. We’ve had […]
NASA Honors the SSEP Communities Flying on STS-135 With Feature Articles at NASA.gov
This past year has been a humbling experience for the staff here at the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education and the thousands of students and teachers in the 27 communities participating in the Student Spaceflight Experiments program. Enabled by NanoRacks Space Act Agreement with NASA, we’ve all had the adventure of a lifetime. We’ve had […]
To All SSEP Student Flight Teams on STS-135 – Stand By for Return and Analysis of Experiment Samples
What? You mean we’ve got to get ready to receive our experiment samples already? But we just got back from the truly spectacular launch in Florida, and we haven’t unpacked yet! (OK, maybe that’s just me:-) Switching to serious— With NASA’s recent one day extension to its mission, Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to return to […]
Critical Update for SSEP on STS-135: New Harvesting of Experiment Samples Page
NCESSE, in concert with ITA and NanoRacks, has carefully defined the milestones and specifications for the harvesting of experiment samples and their return to the SSEP Student Teams flying samples on STS-135. The milestones reflect the extension of the mission by one day, as announced yesterday, with the landing of Atlantis now scheduled to take […]
Art & Science (Intuitive vs. Analytical)
Mae Jemison, US Astronaut, gave a talk at a TED conference in 2002. She spoke on the importance of recognizing the need for a balance between art and science. That’s today’s blog post topic as it’s an issue that was … Continue reading →
Reflections!…and limits?
I am currently in Kissimmee, Florida. I drove down here earlier this past week to attend the final launch of the space shuttle Atlantis. Two SSEP students, Amalia Hosken (my daughter!) and Heba Abuzer, rode down with me. Two more … Continue reading →