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We Are ‘Go’ for Launch of the Dragon April 30, 12:22 pm ET

We Are ‘Go’ for Launch of the Dragon April 30, 12:22 pm ET

The NASA Flight Readiness Review for the Launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft was held on April 16, 2012. NASA reports that we are a ‘go’ for launch on April 30, 12:22 pm ET from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Please see NASA [...]

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Student Spaceflight Experiments Program Inspires With Mission 1

To all students that are participating in SSEP Mission 1 to ISS, and participated in SSEP on Shuttles Endeavour and Atlantis, I think this post might help reaffirm the notion that you were called upon to be scientists and stepped to the plate in amazing ways. The Student Spaceflight Experiments Program has been honored for [...]

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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 [...]

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The Student Space Flight Experiments Program [or SSEP] is undertaken by the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE), a project of the 501(c)(3) Tides Center, in partnership with NanoRacks, LLC. This on-orbit educational research opportunity is enabled through NanoRacks, LLC, which is working in partnership with NASA under a Space Act Agreement as part of the utilization of the International Space Station as a National Laboratory.