Hello everyone- NASA has formally rescheduled the launch of STS-134 from mid-November 2010 to 4:19 pm EST – Feb 26, 2011. See: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts134/index.html You will recall that moving forward with SSEP required a delay until at least mid-January 2011.  On our Critical Timeline found on the How to Participate page we also stated that NASA […]

There are now many community leaders who are interested in bringing SSEP to their community, and are actively approaching potential funders. In many cases, these funders were identified when the SSEP Team provided a tutorial on easy-to-navigate online funding databases that can do a search for funders in a particular state or locale. See THIS […]

Impact of Underwriting The SSEP Team has been able to secure underwriting for a number of SSEP national program activities, including: the ongoing development and support of this web site; the development of the custom SSEP web sites to be provided to participating communities; and staff time for rollout of the SSEP, including national dissemination […]

We recognize that as good as a program might be, in tough financial times funding is very tight. Our expectation has been that school districts would not and could not underwrite the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) with internal funds. From the launch of the SSEP we have therefore made a commitment to assisting communities […]