This post is for teachers in the 14 communities across the U.S. and Canada starting SSEP Mission 8 to ISS this week. You are invited to use this challenge to get the nearly 4,000 students immersed in Mission 8 microgravity experiment design to start thinking about the concept of microgravity (often referred to as the […]
An Introduction to the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Mission 8 to the International Space Station (ISS) started Monday, February 23, 2015.. There are 14 participating communities in Mission 8 – 11 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada. Mission 8 to ISS is the tenth SSEP flight opportunity since program inception in 2010, just 4.5 […]
It’s now a space program tradition. Whenever we start a new SSEP flight opportunity, it’s time for NASA Johnson Style. It’s a video (see below) that will get students and teachers in the frame of mind to start Mission 8 to ISS. We want everyone to recognize that what they are about to embark upon […]
Scientific American Frontiers for Young Minds just published an article on the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP). Author Amanda Baker did a superb job capturing the objectives for SSEP in the context of STEM education and as an authentic immersion experience in research. SSEP is one of three competitions highlighted in the series Not Your […]
The SSEP Mission 6 to ISS Yankee Clipper II payload of student experiments is set to return to Earth today aboard the SpaceX-5 Dragon spacecraft, the same vehicle that brought it to ISS on January 12, 2015. The fifth and final Crew Interactions with the Mission 6 experiments were carried out on February 8, 2015, […]
Did you watch the Super Bowl? Hey, sports fans, how’s this for a teachable moment. So how big is the International Space Station? CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO ZOOM Upper graphic credit: NASA; Lower screen shot credit: NBC The Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) is a program of the National Center for Earth and […]
NCESSE News
- New Flight Opportunity for School Districts: Announcing Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Mission 19 to the International Space Station, Starting September 2024
- New STEM Opportunity – Permanently Install a Voyage Scale Model of the Solar System in Your Community as a Focal Point for STEM Education
- WATCH LIVE: Flight of SSEP Mission 14 ‘Apollo’, Launching on SpaceX CRS-21, Saturday, December 5, 2020, 11:39 am ET
- WATCH HISTORY LIVE TODAY – Launch of Astronauts on SpaceX Demo-2 Mission 3:22 pm ET, May 30, 2020
- SSEP Teachable Moment – WATCH LIVE – Video of Earth from the International Space Station, with Music