A Soyuz Vehicle Docked at ISS, Click for Zoom (Photo-credit ESA/NASA) All crew interactions with the SSEP Antares and Aquarius II experiments payloads are undertaken on Crew Interaction Days that are defined relative to the day the payloads ARRIVE on Station (A=0) or the day of UNDOCKING (U=0) when the payload is to be transferred to the […]
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Thursday, October 18, 2012: Update on SSEP Experiments on ISS
For those following along, the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education and NanoRacks are reporting that Station Commander Suni Williams carried out all scheduled Crew Interaction Activities for day A+6 at 7:12 am EDT, October 17. Two experiments were de-activated. Overviews of the two experiments and their student research teams are provided below. […]
Monday, October 15, 2012: Update on SSEP Experiments on ISS
For those following along, the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education and NanoRacks are reporting that Station Commander Suni Williams carried out all scheduled Crew Interaction Activities for day A+3 at 11:15 am EDT, October 14. One experiment was activated, three de-activated, and two shaken. The SSEP Mission 2 to ISS: Experiment Log […]
Saturday, October 13, 2012: Update on SSEP Experiments on ISS
For those following along, the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education and NanoRacks are reporting that Station Commander Suni Williams carried out all scheduled Crew Interaction Activities for day A+1 between 12:20 and 12:50 pm EDT October 12. Three experiments were activated, one deactivated, and one shaken. The SSEP Mission 2 to ISS: […]
ISS Commander Sunita Williams Activated 8 SSEP Experiments, 5:20 am EDT Today
The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education and NanoRacks are reporting that 8 experiments scheduled for activation on Crew Interaction Day A=0 have been activated by International Space Station Commander Sunita Williams at 5:20 am EDT today. For full details, go the the SSEP Experiment Log page. SSEP is undertaken by the National […]
NCESSE and NanoRacks Commence SSEP On-Orbit Flight Operations on ISS For Student Experiment Payloads Antares and Aquarus II
At 6:56 am EDT today a robotic arm on the International Space Station captured the Dragon vehicle. Aboard Dragon are Antares, the SSEP Mission 2 to ISS experiments payload, and Aquarius II, the Mission 1 experiments payload. With this milestone, the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) and NanoRacks formally announce the […]
T Minus 8 Hours 30 minutes: Update on NASA TV Live Coverage of the Flight of the Dragon
We are now at T minus 8 hours 15 minutes from the historic launch of SpaceX-1 – the first operational flight of a commercial spacecraft for ISS resupply. NASA TV will provide live coverage starting at 7 pm ET, October 7, for scheduled liftoff at 8:35 pm ET. Falcon 9 is operating under an ‘instantaneous launch […]
SSEP Antares and Aquarius II Experiments Payloads Integrated into Dragon Vehicle
NanoRacks informed the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education that the Antares payload, carrying the 11 Mission 2 experiment mini-labs, and the Aquarius II payload, carrying 12 Mission 1 experiment mini-labs for re-flight, were integrated into the SpaceX Dragon vehicle on Saturday, October 6, 2012. We are now go for launch, at 8:35 […]
NASA Issues Press Release on SSEP: “SPACEX DRAGON TO CARRY 23 STUDENT EXPERIMENTS TO SPACE STATION”
At 4:30 pm Eastern today, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration issued a Press Release on Student Spaceflight Experiment Program (SSEP) Mission 1 and Mission 2 to ISS experiment payloads flying on SpaceX-1, October 7, 2012. The full text of the NASA Press Release is provided below. Over 200 partner institutions – school districts, corporate foundations, […]
NCESSE is Honored to Present the 21 Mission Patches – Selected From 5,960 Submissions, Launching October 7, 2012, with the SSEP Mission 2 to ISS Experiments Payload
The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education is proud to present the 21 Mission Patches selected for flight to the International Space Station (ISS) in Antares, the experiments payload for SSEP Mission 2 to ISS. Across the 11 communities participating in Mission 2 to ISS, 37,600 students were given the opportunity to participate in […]