An Update on SSEP Spaceflight Operations – This is the Real Space Program Overview – SSEP Missions 14, 15, and 16 to the International Space Station, and Upcoming Mission 17 Starting September 2022 The SpaceX CRS-23 vehicle carrying experiments from Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Mission 14 and 15 to the International Space Station (ISS) […]
SSEP Mission 14 & 15 Experiments – Astronauts Complete Interactions at Undock Minus 5 Days Milestone
An Update on SSEP Spaceflight Operations – This is the Real Space Program SSEP Apollo and Skylab experiment payload crew interactions were conducted by ESA Astronaut and ISS Flight Engineer, Thomas Pesquet on schedule on Saturday, September 25, 2021. Pesquet interacted with 2 of 6 SSEP experiments. These interactions were pre-planned activities defined by the […]
SSEP Mission 14 & 15 Experiments – Astronauts Complete Interactions at Undock Minus 5 Days Milestone
An Update on SSEP Spaceflight Operations – This is the Real Space Program SSEP Apollo and Skylab experiment payload crew interactions were conducted by ESA Astronaut and ISS Flight Engineer, Thomas Pesquet on schedule on Saturday, September 25, 2021. Pesquet interacted with 2 of 6 SSEP experiments. These interactions were pre-planned activities defined by the […]
THE SOLUTION to the Mission 16 Student Challenge: Understanding Weightlessness – You Want Me to Take a Bathroom Scale Where?
To teachers starting Mission 16 to ISS, this challenge was posted on Tuesday, September 7, 2021. It is designed to help you get your students immersed in Mission 16 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. […]
THE SOLUTION to the Mission 16 Student Challenge: Understanding Weightlessness – You Want Me to Take a Bathroom Scale Where?
To teachers starting Mission 16 to ISS, this challenge was posted on Tuesday, September 7, 2021. It is designed to help you get your students immersed in Mission 16 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. […]
SSEP Mission 14 & 15 Experiments – Astronauts Complete Interactions at Undock Minus 14 Days Milestone
An Update on SSEP Spaceflight Operations – This is the Real Space Program SSEP Apollo and Skylab experiment payload crew interactions were conducted by NASA Astronaut and ISS Flight Engineer, Megan McArthur on schedule Thursday, September 16, 2021. McArthur interacted with 5 of 6 SSEP experiments. These interactions were pre-planned activities defined by the student […]
SSEP Mission 16 to the International Space Station Has Begun: Welcome Aboard to 13,100 Participating Students Across 24 Communities in the U.S., Canada and Ukraine
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 16 to the International Space Station (ISS) – the 18th SSEP flight opportunity since program inception […]
To All Student Researchers Now Engaged in SSEP Mission 16 to ISS – A Challenge for the Start of the Program: Understanding Weightlessness – You Want Me to Take a Bathroom Scale Where?
To all SSEP Mission 16 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. When watching this movie you’re […]
To All Student Researchers Now Engaged in SSEP Mission 16 to ISS – A Challenge for the Start of the Program: Understanding Weightlessness – You Want Me to Take a Bathroom Scale Where?
To all SSEP Mission 16 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. When watching this movie you’re […]
SSEP Mission 14 and 15 Experiments Launch on SpaceX-23, 3:14 am ET, August 30, 2021 – Astronauts Activate Experiments on International Space Station
To all communities that started Mission 16 to ISS on September 1, 2021, your experiments are next to launch in late Spring 2022. The SpaceX CRS-23 vehicle carrying experiments from the SSEP Apollo and Skylab payloads for Mission 14 and 15 to the International Space Station (ISS) blasted off from Space Launch Complex 39A (SLC-39A) at NASA’s […]