Student Spaceflight Experiments Program
The Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) provides an opportunity for student groups from upper elementary school through university to design and fly microgravity experiments in low Earth orbit (LEO). SSEP is a program of the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE, a project of the Tides Center), the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education, and the private space hardware company NanoRacks. SSEP operates under a Space Act Agreement between the sponsoring organizations and NASA, allowing the International Space Station (ISS) to be utilized as a national laboratory.
| Founder(s) | Jeff Goldstein, director, NCESSE |
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| Established | June 2010 |
| Mission | STEM student outreach |
| Head | Jeff Goldstein |
| Key people | Stacy Hamel, Senior Flight Operations Manager John Hamel, Flight Operations Manager Kirsten Weimer, Education Program Coordinator Drew Roman, Technology Manager Harri Vanhala, Science Advisor Tim Livengood, Science Advisor Michael Hulslander, Education Advisor |
| Website | http://ssep.ncesse.org/ |
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