Late last week, NASA formally announced that SpaceX-1 will launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 8:34 pm ET, October 7, 2012. (The NASA Press Release is provided below.) It will be the first operational flight of the Dragon spacecraft for International Space Station resupply. Aboard Dragon will be the Antares payload of 11 […]
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A Salute from SSEP to the End of the Shuttle Era – Thank You Endeavour | Teachers, Watch History Live with Your Students this Morning
Today, the U.S. Space Shuttle Program will take its final flight. At 8:15 am PDT this morning, Endeavour will begin a fly-over of northern California and the Los Angeles area atop the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. At about 12:45 pm PDT she will land at LAX, headed for permanent display at the California Science Center. […]
SpaceX-1 Launch Now “October +”
TO ALL SSEP FLIGHT EXPERIMENT TEAMS The NASA Consolidated Launch Schedule now indicates that the SpaceX-1 Commercial Resupply Flight will launch “October +”. This indicates a No Earlier Than (NET) launch date of at least October 1. The date of the launch therefore remains highly fluid, and no definitive information on a target launch date […]
Re-flight of Entire SSEP Mission 1 Payload of Experiments – as Aquarius II – on Upcoming SpaceX Dragon Launch
The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) is announcing a re-flight of the Aquarius payload of Mission 1 to ISS experiments due to activation/deactivation failure of the Fluids Mixing Enclosure (FME) mini-labs aboard ISS in May/June 2012. Re-flight of an “Aquarius II” payload of Mission 1 experiments will accompany the Mission 2 […]
Get Back into the Spirit of SSEP: Stunning Video of Our Home World from Your International Space Station
While schools are in recess for summer break across the nation, the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education is gearing up for a sweeping array of SSEP activities this Fall – Two SSEP payloads – the Antares payload of 11 Mission 2 to ISS experiments, and Aquarius II, a re-flight of all Mission 1 […]
Smithsonian Showcases 2012 SSEP National Conference to be Held July 2-3
The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum News and Events calendar for public events currently has the 2012 SSEP National Conference in their Spotlight showcase. See: http://airandspace.si.edu/events/ SSEP delegations from across the nation are flying into Washington, DC, this weekend to attend the Conference. The final Conference Schedule of events is now posted at the […]
NASA TV Coverage of Soyuz 29S Return to Earth, July 1, 2012; SSEP Aquarius Payload of Mission 1 to ISS Experiments Aboard
NASA TV will be providing live coverage of the return to Earth of the Soyuz 29S spacecraft with astronauts Oleg Kononenko (Russia), Don Pettit (USA), and Andre Kuipers (ESA). Also aboard the vehicle will be the SSEP Aquarius payload of experiments that was launched on SpaceX Dragon on May 22, 2012. If you’ve been following […]
In Our Own Words – SSEP Student Researcher Ryan Puri at Kennedy Space Center Press Site for Launch of SpaceX Dragon, May 2012
Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Co-Investigator Ryan Puri was part of the delegation from San Marino High School, in San Marino, CA, that was in attendance for the May 19, 2012, launch attempt of the SpaceX Dragon vehicle. The Aquarius payload of SSEP Mission 1 to ISS experiments aboard Dragon included the San Marino experiment: […]
Major Milestone: Activity with SSEP Mission 1 Payload aboard ISS Complete
NanoRacks informed NCESSE at 5:42 pm EDT today, June 29, 2012, that the last activity scheduled to be conducted with the SSEP Mission 1 payload, Aquarius, aboard the International Space Station has been completed. Experiment SSEPM1-09 (E. coli) was activated at 21:15 GMT (5:15 pm EDT). The crew then stowed the SSEP payload in Soyuz […]
SSEP Mission 1 Payload Status Update
The SSEP Mission 1 payload, Aquarius, arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on May 25, 2012. Over the past month, ISS crew members have worked with the payload, activating and deactivating experiments, as required. During this time, real microgravity science experiments designed by student teams from across the United […]