The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education, and Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education, are proud to report that NASA Johnson Space Center has written a feature article on science results reported by SSEP student research teams at the 2014 SSEP National Conference held July 2-3 at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. […]
The Orb-2/Cygnus vehicle successfully berthed with the International Space Station (ISS) at 8:53 am ET, yesterday, July 16, 2014. Stacy Hamel, the SSEP Flight Operations Manager, has alerted all Mission 5 student research teams that we expect the first of the Charlie Brown experiments to be activated today by crew aboard ISS. Four student teams are […]
At 12:52 pm ET, July 13, 2014, the Orb-2 vehicle with the SSEP Mission 5 Charlie Brown payload of experiments blasted off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), Wallops Island, VA. The Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled to rendezvous with the International Space Station, Wednesday, July 16, 2014, with grappling at 6:39 am ET, followed by […]
Today, astronauts Michael Hopkins (USA), Oleg Kotov (Russia), and Sergey Ryazanskiy (Russia), return to Earth on Soyuz 36S (Soyuz TMA-10M) along with the Falcon II payload of 12 SSEP Mission 3b experiments and the Orion payload of 11 SSEP Mission 4 experiments. Milestone events are being covered live on NASA TV. Below is the NASATV schedule. If you wish you can watch live […]
We started a tradition. At the beginning of each new SSEP flight opportunity, we now post on this blog the NASA Johnson Style video. It’s a way to get thousands of new student microgravity researchers and their communities into the spirit of this program. (Sound familiar Mission 6?) But why not post a powerful video […]
The International Space Station (ISS) is a truly remarkable laboratory located 260 miles (420 km) above Earth’s surface, and traveling at 17,000 mph (27,400 Km/hr) – that’s 4.7 miles per second. It is a massive spacecraft – the largest ever constructed and bigger than a football field, and is one of the most complex machines ever built […]
This is an update of on-orbit flight operations for the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Mission 3b Falcon II and Mission 4 Orion experiments currently on the International Space Station. Crew Interaction Day 3 (of 6) occurred on schedule on Thursday, January 30, 2014. Crew interactions by astronaut Koichi Wakata were completed at 10:10 am ET. […]
The following two videos have been downloaded from the International Space Station, forwarded to NanoRacks, and then on to the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education, and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education. These are video records of on-orbit activations, de-activations and other interactions associated with the SSEP Mission 3b and […]
Today, Monday, January 27, 2014, astronauts are conducting a 6-hour spacewalk at the International Space Station, with hatch opening at 9:10 am EST. If you want to get a sense of what that’s like for the astronauts, the image above is a NASA simulation of a spacewalk in December 2013 to repair a coolant pump. […]
The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education, the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education and NanoRacks, are proud to announce that the SSEP Mission 4 Orion payload of 11 experiments, and SSEP Mission 3b Falcon II payload of 12 flight experiments, will be aboard the Orbital Sciences 1 (Orb-1) vehicle launching on Janaury 8, 1:32 pm […]
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