Mmmm good. Here’s astronaut Koichi Wakata (Japan) to explain. Hey – does Koichi look familiar? He was the crew member operating the SSEP Mission 3b and Mission 4 experiments on orbit in January 2014. See the January 27, 2014, Blog Post. Here’s a question to ponder – why not just transport fresh water from Earth […]
Now that 8,000 students across the 19 SSEP Mission 6 communities are fully immersed in microgravity experiment design, we thought that a re-post of the interview below would be helpful to reinforce an understanding of how to think about microgravity experiment design, and how the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) operates. It should also give […]
Mission 6 is Community’s First SSEP Flight Opportunity: Yellow Mission 6 is Community’s at Least Second SSEP Flight Opportunity: Green View SSEP Mission 6 to ISS Communities on a larger map The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) in the U.S. and its international arm, the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education, are proud to […]
As a testament to the capabilities of SSEP to both inspire, and to immerse students in a real research experience, we wanted to showcase two SSEP research teams. First, Michal Bodzianowski, the Principal Investigator (PI) in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, whose Mission 4 experiment just returned to Earth yesterday on Soyuz 36S. Second, a Mission 1 […]
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 […]
The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education, and Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education, are proud and honored to present the 15 Mission Patches representing the communities participating in SSEP Mission 4 to ISS. The Mission Patches were transported to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the SSEP Orion payload of Mission […]
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. The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education was informed by NanoRacks on February 24, 2014, that undocking and return to Earth of the Soyuz 36S vehicle was […]
Clarke Institute News
- New Flight Opportunity for School Districts and Colleges: Announcing Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Mission 21 to the International Space Station, Starting September 2, 2025
- 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