Schools, school districts, and/or other communities may sponsor comptetitions in which teams of students in Grades 5-16 submit proposals this year for microgravity experiments to be sent to the International Space Station for a 4-6-week stay next fall.  The Student Spaceflight Experiments Program is sponsored by the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education.

All schools, school districts, or other communities interested in participating must inquire by November 13.  Community commitment  must be in place by February 15, when each participating community sponsors a 9-week experiment-design and proposal-writing competition through April 22.  Student teams will design and formally propose real experiments vying for the use of their community’s reserved mini-lab on the Space Station.  Flight experiments will be selected by May 26 and will be launched next fall.

For more information, contact Dr. Jeff Goldstein, SSEP Program Director at ssep@ncesse.org.