October 11, 2018 RELEASE 18-089 NASA Statement on Soyuz MS-10 Launch Abort The following is a statement about Thursday’s Soyuz MS-10 launch aboard to the International Space Station: “The Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station at 4:40 a.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 11 (2:40 p.m. in Baikonur) carrying […]
Crew Safe – Rocket Failure after 4:40 am ET Launch of Expedition 57 Crew, October 11, 2018
October 11, 2018 RELEASE 18-089 NASA Statement on Soyuz MS-10 Launch Abort The following is a statement about Thursday’s Soyuz MS-10 launch aboard to the International Space Station: “The Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station at 4:40 a.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 11 (2:40 p.m. in Baikonur) carrying […]
Watch – Orbital Trajectory Takes ISS Directly Over Eye of Hurricane Michael, 12:58 pm ET Today, as it Makes Landfall as Category 4 Storm
Video taken from the International Space Station, October 10, 2018. View by expanding to full screen. Cameras outside the International Space Station capture views of Hurricane Michael at 12:58 p.m. EDT Oct. 10 from an altitude of 255 miles as the storm makes landfall as a major hurricane over the Florida panhandle. Download: https://go.nasa.gov/2yeePqK Footage Credit:NASA […]
WATCH LIVE – Launch and Arrival at ISS of Expedition 57 Crew, October 11, 2018
You can watch the launch, docking at ISS, and hatch opening LIVE on the NASA TV portal below. The NASA Media Advisory with live coverage details is also below. October 05, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY M18-149 NASA Television to Air Launch of NASA Astronaut on First Space Mission Astronaut Nick Hague, who joined NASA’s […]
Hurricane Michael from the International Space Station
Video taken from the International Space Station, October 9, 2018. View by expanding to full screen. Cameras outside the International Space Station captured views of Hurricane Michael at 12:13 p.m. and 12:50 p.m. EDT Oct. 9 from an altitude of 255 miles as the storm churned over the Gulf of Mexico moving northwest at 12 miles […]
THE SOLUTION to the Mission 13 Student Challenge: Understanding Weightlessness – You Want Me to Take a Bathroom Scale Where?
To teachers starting Mission 13 to ISS, this challenge was posted on Thursday, September 18, 2018. It is designed to help you get your students immersed in Mission 13 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. […]
Super Typhoon Trami from ISS
Super Typhoon Trami as seen from the International Space Station. Photograph taken 19 hours ago by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and posted on Twitter. Click on the image to zoom. Follow all the astronauts currently on Station on Twitter via this aggregated feed. The Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) is a program of […]
To All Student Researchers Now Engaged in SSEP Mission 13 to ISS – A Challenge for the Start of Program: Understanding Weightlessness – You Want Me to Take a Bathroom Scale Where?
To all SSEP Mission 13 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. We are honored that we […]
SSEP Mission 13 to the International Space Station Has Begun: Welcome Aboard to 21,300 Participating Students Across 38 Communities in the U.S., Canada and Brazil
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 13 to the International Space Station (ISS) – the 15th SSEP flight opportunity since program inception […]
Astronauts on ISS to Conduct Spacewalks in September 2018 – WATCH LIVE
International Space Station (ISS) Commander Drew Feustel (USA) and Flight Engineers Alexander Gerst (European Space Agency) and Ricky Arnold (USA) will conduct spacewalks on Sunday, September 23, and Saturday, September 29, 2018. These will be the 213th and 214th spacewalks at the ISS. You can watch them LIVE on the NASA TV portal below. […]