In mid-July, OSGC’s director, Jack Higginbotham called to tell me that they were going to fund our project! Thanks SO much to Jack, Laura, and everyone at the Oregon Space Grant! With SSEP funded, I began planning in earnest. During … Continue reading →
NEW OPPORTUNITY: How to Participate in SSEP on the FINAL FLIGHT OF THE U.S. SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM, Shuttle Atlantis (STS-135)
The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education ANNOUNCES AN IMMEDIATE AND HISTORIC OPPORTUNITY for school districts across the U.S. and Canada (grades 5-12), and for community colleges across the U.S., to come aboard the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) for STS-135, the proposed final flight of Shuttle Atlantis—and the final flight of the […]
SSEP Important Update: January 13, 2011
Beginning with this post, we will be periodically posting an UPDATE at this SSEP National Blog, to track multiple aspects of SSEP including critical deadlines. Please encourage all students, teachers, and individuals interested in following SSEP to subscribe to this Blog for email notification of new posts. You can subscribe at the bottom of the right […]
Help Us Decide How Many Eggs to Use in the Experiment.
Based on the material list that we submitted to NCESSE/ITA we can put a maximum of 15 eggs into the bottom well of the Type 2-Prime Well. We have until January 20thto tweak our experiment and adjust the number of … Continue reading →
Fluid and Compatability Test Delayed
Ms. Irwin received a phone call from NCESSE at 8:00 pm yesterday. Earlier that afternoon, ITA informed NCESSE that the climate control in their laboratory failed. They don’t know if the failure was due to the snow storm this week, but because of … Continue reading →
Samples Arrive
We received word at 1:30 pm today that our eggs arrived at ITA at 9:30 am. We met the deadline for the samples to arrive at ITA for the fluids and compatibility test. Yeah! We are hearing a possibility that … Continue reading →
Eggs Shipped
We received three phone calls from Americulture today as they pulled 100,000 eggs two days early so that they could ship roughly 50 eggs to ITA for our fluids and compatibility test. We are so appreciative of all of their … Continue reading →
Welcome to the JMS SSEP blog!
SSEP at Jackson began shortly after my amazing experience as a Honeywell Educator at Space Academy at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL. I learned about the opportunity to put a student’s experiment on the space shuttle … Continue reading →
SSEP National Press Release – STS-134 Experiments Selected, STS-135 Opportunity Announced
Download a PDF of this Press Release After reading this Press Release, be sure to read the New SSEP Homepage Subscribe to receive email updates on the SSEP using the Subscribe Box at the bottom of the right column. Student Experiments on Space Shuttle Endeavour Flight Attract National Attention in Bold New STEM Education Program […]
Water Sample Collection
Dana, Kate, and Jordyn collected the sample of water from the fish tank in Ms. Otten’s room so that it could be shipped to ITA for the fluids and compatibility test.