After launch had been rescheduled a number of times, and then last week’s hurricane Gonzalo threatening a key NASA ground station in Bermuda, NASA announced on October 22 that the Orbital Sciences 3 (Orb-3) mission was a ‘go’ for launch on Monday, October 27, 2014. Liftoff of Orb-3, carrying the SSEP Mission 6 to ISS […]
The Charlie Brown payload of 15 Mission 5 to ISS experiments launched on July 13, 2014, aboard the Orb-2 vehicle, with liftoff at 12:52 pm ET, from pad 0-A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), Wallops Island, VA. Berthing at ISS took place at 6:39 am ET, July 16, 2014. The 15 flight experiments represent the 15 […]
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 7?) But why not post a powerful video […]
In the world of SSEP spaceflight operations, this is a very BIG week. In fact, we don’t think anything like this has happened before in the history of the program. At 9:56 am ET, Saturday, October 25, 2014, NASA astronauts Barry Wilmore and Reid Wiseman will release the SpaceX-4 Dragon vehicle from the ISS Harmony […]
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