In honor of the Soyuz MS-15 return to Earth this Friday with astronauts Andrew Morgan (USA), Jessica Meir (USA) and Oleg Skripochka (Russia), we post the following video. Our hope is this event will excite the current SSEP Student Researchers and teachers and remind former SSEP Student Researchers and teachers of their SSEP experience. We have also posted below the […]
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SSEP Strategic Objectives and Impact Showcased on Capitol Hill for Subcommittee on Aviation and Space
From: Dr. Jeff Goldstein, SSEP National Program Director Center Director, National Center for Earth and Space Education To all Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) community stakeholders – school and school district leadership, funding organizations, and participating universities, and to the hundreds of SSEP Community Program Directors, thousands of SSEP teachers, over 125,000 SSEP […]
New Flight Opportunity for School Districts: Announcing Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Mission 15 to the International Space Station, Starting September 2020
Download a PDF of this Press Release Watch Video Clips describing SSEP: Clip 1 (NASA), Clip 2 (NASA) After reading this Press Release, carefully read the SSEP Homepage that serves as an Executive Summary for the program To receive email notification of breaking program news, subscribe to the SSEP National Blog using the Subscribe Box at the bottom […]
THE SOLUTION to the Mission 14 Student Challenge: Understanding Weightlessness – You Want Me to Take a Bathroom Scale Where?
To teachers starting Mission 14 to ISS, this challenge was posted on Thursday, September 26, 2019. It is designed to help you get your students immersed in Mission 14 microgravity experiment design by first exploring with them the concept of microgravity (the technical term for the phenomenon of ‘weightlessness’). As promised, here is the solution to the Challenge. […]
To All Student Researchers Now Engaged in SSEP Mission 14 to ISS – A Challenge for the Start of Program: Understanding Weightlessness – You Want Me to Take a Bathroom Scale Where?
To all SSEP Mission 14 student microgravity researchers, just before his return to Earth on Soyuz 33S, on May 13, 2013, Expedition 35 International Space Station Commander and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield – the first Canadian to walk in space –released this video. Watch Chris (and his guitar) and see what weightlessness looks like. We are honored that […]
SSEP Mission 14 to the International Space Station Has Begun: Welcome Aboard to 29,300 Participating Students Across 33 Communities in the U.S., Canada and Brazil
The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE), and its international arm, the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education, are honored to announce the start of program operations for Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Mission 14 to the International Space Station (ISS) – the 16th SSEP flight opportunity since program inception […]
UPDATE – NEW LAUNCH DATE AND TIME, 6:24 pm ET, July 24, 2019 – SSEP Mission 13 Experiments on SpaceX CRS-18
The launch of SpaceX CRS-18, carrying the SSEP Mission 14 Gemini payload of experiments, is now scheduled for Wednesday, July 24, 2019, 6:24 pm ET. Below is the new NASA Media Advisory, with live broadcast times. Please go to the July 17, 2019 Blog Post for complete details of the flight of Gemini, the […]
WATCH LIVE: Flight of SSEP Mission 13 “Gemini”, Launching on SpaceX CRS-18, Sunday, July 21, 2019, 7:35 pm ET
To readers – if you would like to wish the Mission 13 to ISS student researchers, their teachers, and their communities good luck on the launch of their experiments on SpaceX CRS-18 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, you are invited to leave a comment below:) Caption: Liftoff of the SpaceX CRS-15 Mission at 5:42 am ET, June […]
LIVE VIDEO OF EARTH FROM ISS – A SSEP Teachable Moment
At the top of the SSEP Homepage, there is a section titled “Multimedia”, which includes multimedia resources, each accessible by opening up a ‘toggle’. The multimedia section is meant to provide SSEP students, teachers, and their communities a real world connection to the International Space Station, its crew, and the fact that this vehicle is right […]
New Flight Opportunity for School Districts: Announcing Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Mission 14 to the International Space Station, Starting September 2019
Download a PDF of this Press Release Watch Video Clips describing SSEP: Clip 1 (NASA), Clip 2 (NASA) After reading this Press Release, carefully read the SSEP Homepage that serves as an Executive Summary for the program To receive email notification of breaking program news, subscribe to the SSEP National Blog using the Subscribe Box at the bottom […]