TIME CRITICAL UPDATE: Significant Modification to Mini-Lab Operation for SSEP on STS-135

The Mini-Laboratory used for STS-135 is the same as used for STS-134—the Materials Dispersion Apparatus (MDA). However, there was to be one essential operational difference. For STS-135 student teams were to be able to add a third experiment sample (a fluid and/or solid) before the shuttle leaves orbit. This would have provided a team the […]

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STS-134 Mission Planning Returns to a 14-Day Mission

To SSEP Student Flight Experiment Teams from Latest Shuttle News at nasa.gov — Flight Planning Returns to a 14-Day Mission Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:42:29 PM EST Space shuttle managers have decided to keep shuttle Endeavour’s STS-134 mission as a 14-day flight and possibly extend the mission as many as two days while Endeavour is […]

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TIME CRITICAL UPDATE FOR SSEP ON STS-134: New Harvesting of Experiment Samples Page

NCESSE, in concert with ITA and NanoRacks, has very carefully defined the milestones and specifications for the harvesting of experiment samples and their return to your SSEP Student Team. The detailed Critical Timeline for Harvesting flows directly from the detailed Critical Timeline for Sample Submission on the STS-134 Submission of Experiment Samples for Flight page. […]

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Additional Day Added to STS-134 Mission

To SSEP Student Flight Experiment Teams from Latest Shuttle News at nasa.gov — Additional Day Added to STS-134 Mission Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:50:49 AM EDT Shuttle managers have officially added an additional day to space shuttle Endeavour’s STS-134 mission making it a 15-day flight. With launch targeted on April 29, landing at Kennedy’s Space Shuttle […]

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Trial Run #3

We received a new batch of eggs and are using different vials to store the eggs. We are still trying out different temperatures to store the vials and have put some in closed shipping contaners. We are still trying to … Continue reading →

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Flight Delay!!!

With 16 days left in our countdown NASA announced a ten day flight delay. Our materials are all measured out, packaged up and ready to go. We’ll hang on to them until the new materials submission date of April 19. … Continue reading →

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The Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) is a program of the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) in the U.S., and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education internationally. It is enabled through a strategic partnership with DreamUp PBC and NanoRacks LLC, which are working with NASA under a Space Act Agreement as part of the utilization of the International Space Station as a National Laboratory. SSEP is the first pre-college STEM education program that is both a U.S. national initiative and implemented as an on-orbit commercial space venture.