Today, Sen. Tom Coburn (OK) pointed to the Student Spaceflight Expeirments Program (SSEP) as an example of wasteful government spending. The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education finds his comments to be categorically inaccurate, and a great disservice to all the communities and partners that have worked hard to make SSEP a reality. […]
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Images This Week from ISS – Courtesy of @ISS_CASIS
Check out these spectacular images captured by the #ISS #Exp41 crew this week! pic.twitter.com/l3z7F3v4Rf — ISS National Lab (@ISS_CASIS) October 10, 2014 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 […]
New Flight Opportunity for School Districts: Announcing Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Mission 8 to the International Space Station, Starting February 2015
Download a PDF of this Press Release Watch Video: A Program Overview After reading this Press Release, be sure to read the SSEP Homepage that serves as an Executive Summary for the program Subscribe to receive email notification of breaking news on SSEP using the Subscribe Box at the bottom of the right column. Student Spaceflight Experiments […]
BREAKING NEWS – NASA PRESS CONFERENCE 4:00 PM ET TODAY: America’s Return to Sending Astronauts to Space
To students, teachers, and communities across the SSEP network- Since retirement of the Space Shuttle fleet after the July 2011 flight of STS-135, Atlantis – which carried Intrepid, the second SSEP experiments payload – transport of all U.S. astronauts to and from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) required Russian Soyuz vehicles. America is now on track […]
THE SOLUTION to the Mission 7 Student Challenge: Understanding Weightlessness – You Want Me to Take a Bathroom Scale Where?
To teachers starting Mission 7 to ISS, this challenge was posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2014. It is designed to help you get your students immersed in Mission 7 microgravity experiment design by first exploring the concept of microgravity (often referred to as the phenomenon of ‘weighlessness’). As promised, here is the solution to the Challenge. […]
THE SOLUTION to the Mission 7 Student Challenge: Understanding Weightlessness – You Want Me to Take a Bathroom Scale Where?
To teachers starting Mission 7 to ISS, this challenge was posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2014. It is designed to help you get your students immersed in Mission 7 microgravity experiment design by first exploring the concept of microgravity (often referred to as the phenomenon of ‘weighlessness’). As promised, here is the solution to the Challenge. […]
For SSEP Mission 7 to ISS Student Researchers – A Challenge: Understanding Weightlessness – You Want Me to Take a Bathroom Scale Where?
This post is for teachers in the 25 communities across the U.S. starting SSEP Mission 7 to ISS this week. You are invited to use this challenge to get the nearly 10,000 students immersed in Mission 7 microgravity experiment design to start thinking about the concept of microgravity (often referred to as the phenomenon of […]
For Mission 7 Communities Starting SSEP – NASA JSC Interview: Dr. Jeff Goldstein, SSEP Program Director, on Orb-1 Launch
An Introduction to the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Mission 7 to the International Space Station (ISS) starts tomorrow, September 8, 2014. At least 25 communities across the U.S. are participating in what is the ninth SSEP flight opportunity in just 4 years. In support of Mission 7, this is a repost of an […]
The Tradition Continues – A ‘NASA Johnson Style’ Welcome Aboard America’s Space Program to 10,000 Students Now Starting SSEP Mission 7 to ISS
It’s now a space program tradition. Whenever we start a new SSEP flight opportunity, it’s time for NASA Johnson Style. It’s a video (below) that will get students and teachers in the frame of mind to start Mission 7 to ISS. We want everyone to recognize that what they are about to embark on is […]
SSEP Impact: New NASA Feature Article on Research Results Reported by Student Teams at 2014 SSEP National Conference, July 2-3, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education, and Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education, are proud to report that NASA Johnson Space Center has written a feature article on science results reported by SSEP student research teams at the 2014 SSEP National Conference held July 2-3 at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. […]