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Since SSEP began 2 years ago, we have periodically invited guest bloggers to write essays on what this program has meant to their communities. A list of these essays is found at the top of the In Our Own Words page, at the SSEP Community Network Hubsite. We recently invited SSEP attendees at Kennedy Space Center […]

We thought this was worthy of a blog post:) Looking back over the last 2 years, pretty cool. Leave a birthday wish below if you’d like. ps- Here was the very first post.          

  11 Experiments Chosen from over 1,100 Proposed will Fly to International Space Station Via Commercial STEM Education Initiative For Immediate Release June 7, 2012 Program Description Video Clip NEW NASA video on SSEP Download a PDF of this Release WASHINGTON – The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) in partnership with […]

                      The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) and the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum (NASM) are proud to present the student research teams presenting at the 2012 SSEP National Conference at the Museum on July 2 and 3, 2012. Student teams from three SSEP […]

On Friday, June 1, 2012, at 8:32 am EDT, the communication below was sent to all SSEP Community Program Directors for Mission 1 to ISS, and to all Teacher Facilitators for student research teams with a flight experiment contained in the Aquarius payload aboard ISS. There are many students following along with the flight of […]

This past week saw the historic launch of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, and the first berthing of a commercial vehicle with the International Space Station. The Aquarius payload of SSEP Mission 1 to ISS experiments was the only science payload aboard. There was extensive media coverage of the flight of Aquarius on Dragon, reflecting the […]

The following video is from SPACEPORTS, May 23, 2012. NASA Public Affairs Office commentator Pat Ryan talks with Dr. Tara Ruttley, ISS Associate Program Scientist, about the science payload carried in the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, the impact of commercial cargo ships on science activities and the ISS Research & Development Conference in June 2012. Most of […]

NASA TV will be providing live coverage of the return to Earth of the Dragon spacecraft. If you’ve been following this historic flight, you might want to tune in, and this post includes a live NASA TV video window. Below the video window is the official NASA Media Advisory for Dragon Coverage. Note that the […]

From NanoRacks, a few minutes ago— The Module 9 mix sticks were activated by crew member Don Pettit at exactly 9:30 AM CDT (14:30 GMT) on Monday morning. He called down a couple of times wanting to make sure that he got sufficient bending (~5 degrees) to break the ampules, as he was having a […]

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