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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
To all students that are participating in 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 a [...]
Private Sector Effort Offers Real Research Opportunity for Grade 5-16 Students aboard International Space Station, 50,000 Expected to Participate Next Phase of Bold New STEM Education Program that Attracted National Attention with Student Experiments on Final Flights of Shuttles Endeavour and Atlantis, and Provided Participation to 30,700 Students Sunday, July 31, 2011 Video Overview of [...]
This past year has been a humbling experience for the staff here at the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education and the thousands of students and teachers in the 27 communities participating in the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program. Enabled by NanoRacks Space Act Agreement with NASA, we’ve all had the adventure of a lifetime. We’ve had [...]
The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) oversees the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP). Circe Bridges, the Teacher Facilitator for the flight experiment from Zachary, LA, that flew aboard STS-134, the final flight of Shuttle Endeavour in April 2011, wanted to share the following— Participation in the Student Spaceflight Experiment Program has [...]
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
