The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has honored all the SSEP researchers, their teachers, their families, and communities participating in the historic SSEP Mission 1 to ISS with a feature article at NASA.gov. It is a recognition that these student researchers are part of America’s Space Program in the 21st century, and a tribute to [...]
To all SSEP Mission 1 to ISS participants, take pride in another historic first. I received the email below at 8:15 am today from Jeffrey Manber, NanoRacks’ Managing Director. Jeffrey is a great friend, in fact a great friend to all of us. He had faith in SSEP two years ago when we took the program [...]
April 6, 2012, 10:00 pm EDT: Student flight experiment teams have reached a milestone. NanoRacks in Houston is now in receipt of 14 of 15 Fluids Mixing Enclosure (FME) mini-laboratories for integration into the Aquarius payload. The mini-labs were to be delivered today, but there’s a hitch — always is with real science. (And it’s not [...]
The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education is proud to announce the new Community Profiles and Local Partners: SSEP Mission 2 to ISS page. The 11 communities profiled on the page are providing the opportunity for 15,120 grade 5-12 students to design and propose real experiments for flight aboard the International Space Station [...]
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 [...]
The Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) is about inspiring America’s next generation of scientists and engineers, and engaging entire communities in the process. Student teams proposing real experiments to fly on the International Space Station is the core SSEP activity. But community-wide engagement, and cross-disciplinary learning are also cornerstone objectives for SSEP in the context [...]
We have never told the complete backstory for selection of the flight experiments for Mission 1 to ISS. So here it is. It’s a pretty remarkable, very real world window on spaceflight and science. And it is a powerful teachable moment as Rebecca Mitchell, the teacher facilitator for one of the two Houston flight experiments [...]
NanoRacks has informed us that NASA has formally moved Aquarius, the SSEP experiments payload for Mission 1 to the International Space Station (ISS) from Soyuz 30 to the SpaceX Dragon vehicle. We were there for the end of the Space Shuttle era with the flight of SSEP experiment payloads Eagle and Intrepid on the final [...]
The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education and NanoRacks are proud to announce that SSEP Mission 1 Flight Experiment Co-Principal Investigator Kyra Smith, an 8th grade student at Stuart-Hobson Middle School in Washington, DC, and SSEP Community Program Co-Director Anthonette Peña had the honor earlier today of representing the Student Spaceflight Experiment Program [...]
Yesterday we received a special thank you from the parents of Michael Prince, a Co-Principal Investigator on a Mission 1 flight experiment to the International Space Station. Michael is a 5th grader at Parker Elementary School in Houston. Michael’s dad points to “great teachers, schools and programs like this”. We may have supplied the program [...]
NCESSE News
- NASA Honors Communities Across the United States Engaged in SSEP Mission 1 to ISS with a Feature Article
- You Want History? The SSEP Aquarius Mission 1 Payload is the Only Scientific Research Payload on Dragon
- SPECIAL UPDATE: Aquarius Payload Integration – Houston in Receipt of Mission 1 Mini-Labs for Flight of the Dragon
- Communities and Partners Formally Announced for Student Spaceflight Experiments Program Mission 2 to ISS
- Preliminary Announcement: NCESSE Honored to Welcome 11 Communities Aboard for Mission 2 to ISS
