Student Science The Space Station Begins

The second annual Student Spaceflight Experiment Program (SSEP) National Conference was held at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum on July 2 and 3, 2012. This student science symposium allowed student teams from all over the country to share their designs and results for experiments conducted on the INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. The student science symposium allowed student teams from all over the country to share their designs and results for experiments conducted on the International Space Station. The conference included a "Poster Session" held in the Space Race gallery in which student researchers were given the opportunity to present their work to the public. RUSSELL AND WISE COUNTY SCHOOLS, in the rural Central Appalachian mountain coalfields, will become the first and second public school districts in Virginia to have students participating in the Student Spaceflight Experiment Program, in cooperation with commercial space firm Nanoracks, LLC under a NASA Space Act Agreement (SAA), placing science experiments on the INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. Russell County students will fly an experiment in OCTOBER 2012 (MISSION-2) and Wise County students will fly in the spring of 2013 (Mission-3). "MILESTONES OF FLIGHT" by JEFF GOLDSTEIN, Center Director, SSEP National Program Director, National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) kicked-off the second annual Student Spaceflight Experiment Program (SSEP) National Conference held at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Goldstein gives the students an overview of air and space history while looking to the future with commercial spaceflight.

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