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Live Video: Harvesting of Experiment Samples for SSEP on STS-135, NASA SLSL, Kennedy Space Center

Provided below is a live video feed from the NASA Space Life Sciences Lab showing harvesting operations for the SSEP experiment samples in the MDA mini-laboratory that flew on Atlantis (STS-135). Note that there is no audio feed. The harvesting process is covered in detail on the STS-135 Harvesting of Experiment Samples page.

Harvesting Milestones: Thursday, July 21, 2011

Current Activity: 9:00 pm, EDT: operations shut down for evening; re-starting 9:00 am, Friday, July 22

7:00 – 9:00 pm, EDT: team harvesting professional research expts completes 2nd phase of their activity
2:20 – 7:00 pm, EDT: team harvesting SSEP expts completes 1st phase of their activity
12:55 – 2:20 pm, EDT: team harvesting professional research expts completes 1st phase of their activity
10:00 am – 12:55 pm, EDT: harvesting team prepared MDA mini-lab for harvesting process
10:00 am EDT: Payload containing SSEP experiments received from NASA after extraction from Atlantis

NOTE FOR EVENING OF JULY 21: THE VIDEO BELOW IS CURRENTLY A PRE-RECORDED SEGMENT FROM EARLIER TODAY. LIVE COVERAGE WILL BEGIN AGAIN TOMORROW MORNING, LIKELY 11:00 AM.

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Countdown to Currently Scheduled Launches for the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program
SSEP Mission 17 to ISS Orbiter Payload Elapsed Time Since Return to Earth 12/22/23 on SpaceX CRS-29 My count-up
SSEP Mission 18 to ISS Surveyor Payload Countdown to Estimated Launch of SpaceX CRS-31 My countdown
SSEP Mission 19 to ISS Endeavour Payload Countdown to Estimated Launch of SpaxeX Vehicle (TBD) My countdown
SSEP Mission 20 to ISS Atlantis Payload Countdown to Estimated Launch of SpaxeX Vehicle (TBD) My countdown

Completed SSEP MissionsM - Mission, L - Launch Date, R - Return to Earth Date

M17: L - 11/9/23 SpaceX-29; R - 12/22/23 SpaceX-29 M16/14D: L-11/26/22 SpaceX-26, R-1/11/23 SpaceX-26
M15B/14C: L-8/29/21 SpaceX-23, R-9/30/21 SpaceX-23
M15A/14B: L- 6/3/21 SpaceX-22, R - 7/9/21 SpaceX-22
M14A: L - 12/06/20 SpaceX-21, R -01/13/21 SpaceX-21
M13: L - 07/25/19 SpaceX-18, R - 08/27/19 SpaceX-18
M12: L - 06/29/18 SpaceX-15, R - 08/03/18 SpaceX-15
M11: L - 08/14/17 SpaceX-12, R - 09/17/17 SpaceX-12
M10: L - 06/03/17 SpaceX-11, R - 07/02/17 SpaceX-11
M9: L - 02/19/17 SpaceX-10, R - 03/19/17 SpaceX-10
M8: L - 07/18/16 SpaceX-9, R - 08/26/16 SpaceX-9
M7: L - 04/08/16 SpaceX-8, R - 05/11/16 SpaceX-8
M6: L - 01/10/15 SpaceX-5, R - 02/10/15 SpaceX-5
M5: L - 07/13/14 Orb-2, R - 10/25/14 SpaceX-4
M4: L - 01/09/14 Orb -1, R - 03/10/14 Soyuz 36S
M3b: L - 01/09/14 Orb-1, R - 03/10/14 Soyuz 36S
M3a: L - 09/18/13 Orb-D1, R - 11/10/13 Soyuz 35S
M2: L - 10/07/12 SpaceX-1, R - 11/19/12 Soyuz 31S
M1: L - 05/22/12 SpaceX-D1, R - 07/01/12 Soyuz 29S
STS-135 (Atlantis): L - 07/08/11, R - 07/21/11
STS-134 (Endeavour): L - 05/16/11, R - 06/01/11

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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.