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Student Microgravity Experiments Selected to Fly Aboard First Operational Flight of SpaceX Dragon in September 2012

By on June 7, 2012 in Program News

  11 Experiments Chosen from over 1,100 Proposed will Fly to International Space Station Via Commercial STEM Education Initiative For Immediate Release June 7, 2012 Program Description Video Clip NEW NASA video on SSEP Download a PDF of this Release WASHINGTON – The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) in partnership with […]

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Preliminary Announcement: SSEP Honored to Welcome 11 Communities Aboard for Mission 2 to ISS

By on March 13, 2012 in Program News

The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) is proud to announce the 11 communities across America that have come aboard SSEP Mission 2 to the International Space Station (ISS). Mission 2 provides for a microgravity experiment design competition in Winter/Spring 2012, and the flight of Antares—the Mission 2 experiments payload—to ISS in […]

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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.