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.
MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Now Featured at www.nasa.gov
The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE), and NanoRacks, LLC, are proud to pass on word from NASA that the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) is now featured at the NASA.gov website. Besides the main article, there is a separate feature article—written by the communities themselves—for 13 of the 16 SSEP communities […]
LIVE COVERAGE OF SSEP ON STS-134 Page Now Fully Operational
We have just completed the Live Coverage of SSEP on STS-134 page. Please visit the page to see all the (way cool) available resources. We now have Student Voices of Mission Control operational for 8 communities: Shelton, Lincolnwood, El Paso, Chicago (WELCOME ABOARD SSEP, CHICAGO!), Broward County, and Crown Point (WELCOME ABOARD SSEP, CROWN POINT!), […]
SSEP Experiment Loading in MDA starting 3:15 pm EDT – Watch Live
Watch LIVE! You might see Nick Fingland, Ron Jones, and John Cassanto. The lower MDA block is loaded first. Then the MDA upper block is loaded. There are 3 Type 1 Experiment Slots, which are all loaded in the upper block. Loading sequence for MDA lower block, starting about 3:!5 pm EDT (13 Type 2-Prime lower wells): Orange County, […]
Meet Shuttle Endeavour’s Six-man Crew
Here is a good overview of the STS-134 crew with links. See: Meet shuttle Endeavour’s six-man crew, Spaceflight Now, April 25, 2011.
No News Is Good News
There were no phone calls recieved from ITA after we dropped off the samples so we are assuming that no news is good news and that the loading of the samples went well. We did find it quite amusing that … Continue reading →
Avicenna Students Spend Time at IUN
Today Avicenna’s members of the AASCC took a field trip to Indiana University Northwest to explore the lab space and learn a little bit about embryonic development (amongst other things!) from Dr.Harold Olivey. The children were able to get a much closer … Continue reading →