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SSEP Teachable Moment – How To See A Very Bright International Space Station Fly Over Your Home

Published on April 29, 2020 by Jeff Goldstein in News

To Teachers: you can pass this post on to your students as a home activity, so they can see the International Space Station fly overhead at night with their parents and families. Also note that you can embed the ‘Spot the Station’ widget below on any website. Right now the farthest humans from Earth are […]

Countdown to Currently Scheduled Launches for the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program
SSEP Mission 19 to ISS Endeavour Payload Countdown to Estimated Launch of SpaceX CRS-34 My countdown
SSEP Mission 20 to ISS Atlantis Payload Countdown to Estimated Launch of SpaceX CRS-35 My countdown
SSEP Mission 21 to ISS Discovery Payload Countdown to Estimated Launch of SpaceX Vehicle (TBD) My countdown
SSEP Mission 22 to ISS Armstrong Payload Countdown to Estimated Launch of SpaceX Vehicle (TBD) My countdown

Elapsed Time Since Return to Earth for Completed SSEP Missions
SSEP Mission 17 to ISS Orbiter Payload Elapsed Time Since Return to Earth 12/22/23 on SpaceX CRS-29 My count-up
SSEP Mission 18 to ISS Surveyor Payload Elapsed Time Since Return to Earth 12/17/24 on SpaceX CRS-31 My count-up

Completed SSEP MissionsM - Mission, L - Launch Date, R - Return to Earth Date

M18: L - 11/4/24 SpaceX-31; R - 12/17/24 SpaceX-31 M17: L - 11/9/23 SpaceX-29; R - 12/22/23 SpaceX-29
M16/14D: L-11/26/22 SpaceX-26, R-1/11/23 SpaceX-26
M15B/14C: L-8/29/21 SpaceX-23, R-9/30/21 SpaceX-23
M15A/14B: L- 6/3/21 SpaceX-22, R - 7/9/21 SpaceX-22
M14A: L - 12/06/20 SpaceX-21, R -01/13/21 SpaceX-21
M13: L - 07/25/19 SpaceX-18, R - 08/27/19 SpaceX-18
M12: L - 06/29/18 SpaceX-15, R - 08/03/18 SpaceX-15
M11: L - 08/14/17 SpaceX-12, R - 09/17/17 SpaceX-12
M10: L - 06/03/17 SpaceX-11, R - 07/02/17 SpaceX-11
M9: L - 02/19/17 SpaceX-10, R - 03/19/17 SpaceX-10
M8: L - 07/18/16 SpaceX-9, R - 08/26/16 SpaceX-9
M7: L - 04/08/16 SpaceX-8, R - 05/11/16 SpaceX-8
M6: L - 01/10/15 SpaceX-5, R - 02/10/15 SpaceX-5
M5: L - 07/13/14 Orb-2, R - 10/25/14 SpaceX-4
M4: L - 01/09/14 Orb -1, R - 03/10/14 Soyuz 36S
M3b: L - 01/09/14 Orb-1, R - 03/10/14 Soyuz 36S
M3a: L - 09/18/13 Orb-D1, R - 11/10/13 Soyuz 35S
M2: L - 10/07/12 SpaceX-1, R - 11/19/12 Soyuz 31S
M1: L - 05/22/12 SpaceX-D1, R - 07/01/12 Soyuz 29S
STS-135 (Atlantis): L - 07/08/11, R - 07/21/11
STS-134 (Endeavour): L - 05/16/11, R - 06/01/11

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