The SpaceX Dragon vehicle that transported the SSEP Antares and Aquarius II payloads of student experiments to the International Space Station is scheduled to depart Station at 9:26 am EDT Sunday, October 28. Commander Sunita Williams, who has been operating the SSEP experiments aboard Station, along with Flight Engineer Akihiko Hishide, will be controlling the robotic arm that will […]
Mission 3 is Community’s First SSEP Flight Opportunity: Yellow Mission 3 is Community’s at Least Second SSEP Flight Opportunity: Green View Mission 3 to ISS Communities in a larger map Note: One Mission 3 Community, the Teachers in Space nationally distributed community program, is not shown on the map. SSEP Mission 3 to ISS The National Center […]
There are currently 3 astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS): Commander Sunita Williams (NASA), and Flight Engineers Aki Hoshide (Japan), and Yuri Malenchenko (Russia). Commander Williams has been conducting all on-orbit operations with the SSEP Antares and Aquiarius II payloads. At 6:51 am ET, Tuesday October 23, 2012, Soyuz TMA-06M will launch from the […]
All crew interactions with the SSEP Antares and Aquarius II experiments payloads are undertaken on Crew Interaction Days that are defined relative to the day the payloads ARRIVE on Station (A=0) or the day of UNDOCKING (U=0) when the payload is to be transferred to the Soyuz 31S ferry vehicle for return to Earth. There are […]
For those following along, the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education and NanoRacks are reporting that Station Commander Suni Williams carried out all scheduled Crew Interaction Activities for day A+6 at 7:12 am EDT, October 17. Two experiments were de-activated. Overviews of the two experiments and their student research teams are provided below. […]
For those following along, the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education and NanoRacks are reporting that Station Commander Suni Williams carried out all scheduled Crew Interaction Activities for day A+3 at 11:15 am EDT, October 14. One experiment was activated, three de-activated, and two shaken. The SSEP Mission 2 to ISS: Experiment Log […]
For those following along, the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education and NanoRacks are reporting that Station Commander Suni Williams carried out all scheduled Crew Interaction Activities for day A+1 between 12:20 and 12:50 pm EDT October 12. Three experiments were activated, one deactivated, and one shaken. The SSEP Mission 2 to ISS: […]
This was originally posted at NCESSE’s Student Spaceflight Experiments Program website on October 10, 2012 At 6:56 am EDT today a robotic arm on the International Space Station captured the Dragon vehicle. Aboard Dragon are Antares, the SSEP Mission 2 to ISS experiments payload, and Aquarius II, the Mission 1 experiments payload. With this milestone, the […]
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