Download PDF of this Press Release After reading this Press Release, carefully read the SSEP Homepage that serves as an Executive Summary for the program. Notable Program Coverage – [Video] SSEP Showcased at Congressional Hearing, 11/5/19: STEM Impact in Era of Commercial Space SSEP Showcased in Scientific American Sparking Student Interest in Space Science in Brazil NASA News: SSEP […]

Click to Zoom   The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE), and its international arm, the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education, are honored to announce the start of program operations for Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Mission 21 to the International Space Station (ISS) – the 23rd SSEP flight opportunity […]

The 2025 SSEP National Conference took place at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on Wednesday, July 2, 2025. We had over 100 attendees from communities across the US, Brazil, and Portugal. There were 14 student team oral presentations reflecting Missions 18 through 20, and videos of the presentations are now posted on the […]

Download PDF of this Press Release After reading this Press Release, carefully read the SSEP Homepage that serves as an Executive Summary for the program. Notable Program Coverage – [Video] SSEP Showcased at Congressional Hearing, 11/5/19: STEM Impact in Era of Commercial Space SSEP Showcased in Scientific American Sparking Student Interest in Space Science in Brazil NASA News: SSEP […]

Caption – Get into the Sprit of the Upcoming Launch: This is the launch of an earlier SSEP Mission on SpaceX CRS-18 at 6:01 pm ET, July 25, 2019 (expand YouTube video window to full screen). The Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft launched from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, […]

To teachers starting Mission 19 to ISS, this challenge was posted on Wednesday, September 11, 2024. It is designed to help you get your students immersed in Mission 19 microgravity experiment design by first exploring with them the concept of microgravity (the technical term for the phenomenon of ‘weightlessness’). As promised, here is the solution to the Challenge. […]

Download PDF of this Press Release NASA News: SSEP Wins Award for Research on International Space Station Video Clips describing SSEP: Clip 1 (NASA), Clip 2 (NASA) SSEP Showcased in Scientific American [Video] SSEP Showcased at Congressional Hearing, 11/5/19: STEM Impact in Era of Commercial Space After reading this Press Release, carefully read the SSEP Homepage that serves as an Executive […]

 To all SSEP Mission 19 student microgravity researchers, just before his return to Earth on Soyuz 33S, on May 13, 2013, Expedition 35 International Space Station Commander and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield – the first Canadian to walk in space –released this video. Watch Chris (and his guitar) and see what weightlessness looks like. When watching this movie you’re […]

Click to Zoom         The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE), and its international arm, the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education, are honored to announce the start of program operations for Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Mission 19 to the International Space Station (ISS) – the 21st […]

Download PDF of this Press Release NASA News: SSEP Wins Award for Research on International Space Station Video Clips describing SSEP: Clip 1 (NASA), Clip 2 (NASA) SSEP Showcased in Scientific American [Video] SSEP Showcased at Congressional Hearing, 11/5/19: STEM Impact in Era of Commercial Space After reading this Press Release, carefully read the SSEP Homepage that serves as an Executive […]