Fifty-Seven Student Rocket Teams to Take NASA Launch Challenge
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 14, 2012
More than 500 students from middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities in 29 states will show their rocketeering prowess in the 2011-12 NASA Student Launch Projects flight challenge. The teams will build and test large-scale rockets of their own design in April 2012. NASA created the twin Student Launch Projects to spark students’ imaginations, [...]
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Immediate, Historic Opportunity for Schools – Student Spaceflight Experiments Program MISSION 1 TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
Posted by brandoniswrite on September 1, 2011
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 [...]
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Tags: Experiments, Historic, Immediate, International, Mission, Opportunity, Program, Schools, Space, Spaceflight, station, Student
To All SSEP Student Flight Teams on STS-135 – Stand By for Return and Analysis of Experiment Samples
Posted by brandoniswrite on July 30, 2011
What? You mean we’ve got to get ready to receive our experiment samples already? But we just got back from the truly spectacular launch in Florida, and we haven’t unpacked yet! (OK, maybe that’s just me:-) Switching to serious— With NASA’s recent one day extension to its mission, Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to return to [...]
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Tags: Analysis, Experiment, Flight, return, Samples, SSEP, stand, STS135, Student, Teams
Student Questions Needed: Earth Day Video Chat
Posted by brandoniswrite on December 20, 2010
To celebrate Earth Day 2011, the Education Office at NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., is hosting a live Web video chat where your students can ask a NASA/JPL scientist questions emailed in advance. Questions should be on the topic of Earth science. Our chat is best suited for students and afterschool groups in [...]
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Tags: Chat, Earth..., Needed, Questions, Student, Video
MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Now Featured at www.nasa.gov
Posted by brandoniswrite on October 13, 2010
The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE), and NanoRacks, LLC, are proud to pass on word from NASA that the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) is now featured at the NASA.gov website. Besides the main article, there is a separate feature article—written by the communities themselves—for 13 of the 16 SSEP communities [...]
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Tags: ANNOUNCEMENT, Experiments, Featured, MAJOR, Program, Spaceflight, SSEP, Student, www.nasa.gov
MDA Mini-Lab to be Reloaded in Prep for May 8 Endeavour Launch: Up to 9 Student Teams Standing by for Re-submission of Experiment Samples
Posted by brandoniswrite on May 9, 2010
NCESSE received a de-brief this evening from NanoRacks and ITA regarding the plan for moving forward with payload flight readiness. We are now proceeding under the assumption of a May 8 launch. The MDA mini-laboratory will be flushed of all existing experiment samples and sterilized on Monday May 2. The reload of experiment samples will [...]
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Tags: Endeavour, Experiment, launch, MiniLab, Prep, Reloaded, Resubmission, Samples, Standing, Student, Teams
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