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SSEP in the News

Since it was launched in June 2010, the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) has garnered significant media attention at the local, regional, and national level. Hundreds of articles have been written addressing the impact of this high caliber STEM education program. On this page are links to media libraries of SSEP Press Releases, NASA coverage, general program coverage, and coverage associated with each of the SSEP flight opportunities to date.

 

Scientific American featured SSEP in February 2015. It is an exceptional overview of the program.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scientific American, February 17, 2015
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/frontiers-for-young-minds/not-your-grandma-8217-s-science-competition-8211-part-2/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Air&Space Smithsonian, AirSpaceMag.com, January 01, 2014
http://www.airspacemag.com/viewport/viewport-8-180949480/
Also at SSEP National Blog:
http://ssep.ncesse.org/2013/12/take-pride-from-the-director-of-the-smithsonian-national-air-and-space-museum-on-ssep-and-the-future-of-americas-space-program/

 

Summary of Media Coverage
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Last Revised: February 27, 2025

Mission Number of Media Articles
1 Exceptional General Coverage 22
2 NCESSE Mission Announcements & PRs 22
3 NASA & CASIS Coverage 110
4 NanoRacks & DreamUp Coverage 12
5 National Partner Coverage 10
6 Mission 20 to ISS 3
7 Mission 19 to ISS 9
8 Mission 18 to ISS 91
9 Mission 17 to ISS 69
10 Mission 16 to ISS 66
11 Mission 15 to ISS 4
12 Mission 14 to ISS 77
13 Mission 13 to ISS 137
14 Mission 12 to ISS 141
15 Mission 11 to ISS 58
16 Mission 10 to ISS 32
17 Mission 9 to ISS 92
18 Mission 8 to ISS 28
19 Mission 7 to ISS 91
20 Mission 6 to ISS 123
21 Mission 5 to ISS 37
22 Mission 4 to ISS 42
23 Mission 3 to ISS 62
24 Mission 2 to ISS 26
25 Mission 1 to ISS 31
26 SSEP on STS-135 12
27 SSEP on STS-134 108
Total Number of Media Articles 1,516

 

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.