NCESSE received a de-brief this evening from NanoRacks and ITA regarding the plan for moving forward with payload flight readiness. We are now proceeding under the assumption of a May 8 launch. The MDA mini-laboratory will be flushed of all existing experiment samples and sterilized on Monday May 2. The reload of experiment samples will […]
Endeavour Not Launching on Monday, May 2, Astronauts Heading Back to Houston
SSEP Experiment Status: We have reposted NASA’s Sunday, May 1, 10:01 am EDT, update below, as it appeared at NASA.gov. We will provide status reports on NanoRacks and ITA payload processing of the SSEP experiments on this SSEP National Blog. Teacher facilitators for all student experiment teams need to be reachable as we proceed through […]
Just met some of the astronauts……
The students are not too happy about delay but two in Florida just met some of the astronauts.
Flight Postponed – Big Bummer
We will wait for NASA to have press conference at 4pm today (Friday) and then plan next step. If Monday launch – at 2:33 pm – we will watch it from school.
Scrubbed… April 29th Launch Attempt
We’d all met up in the parking lot in Merritt Island, Florida, met up with SSEP communities from across the country, put a face to Dr. Goldstein, caravanned out to the Kars Park viewing site and staked out our launch … Continue reading →
The school is preparing for the big event…
Poster Board 1
Control experiment is set up – eggs in vials
Preparations are underway back at the school – launch is right after school tomorrow.
MAJOR MILESTONE: MDA Payload in the Shuttle
NanoRacks has just informed us that the MDA payload for STS-134 is now aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, and we are all ready for launch tomorrow afternoon. Congratulations to all student teams for their hard work preparing the experiments for flight!
Mission Briefing
Lots of statistics about the chances for an on time launch were shared. During the mission the crew will instal the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment – a cosmic particle detector that utilizes the first ever superconducting magnet flown i…
Kennedy Space Center
Endeavour on the lanuch pad.