Students from some of the participating SSEP schools stand with program founder, Dr. Jeff Goldstein, the morning of the Antares Orb-2 launch. The students watched
their experiments soar into space that same day with much anticipation. Credit: Lloyd Campbell
SSEP: Sending student
experiments to the ISS
By Lloyd Campbell
On the morning of July 12,
2014, the Orbital Science Antares
rocket sits on Pad 0A at NASA’s
Wallops Island facility awaiting to
be hopefully be launched at 12:52
p.m. that afternoon. On top of the
rocket is Orbital’s Cygnus ORB-2
spacecraft packed with cargo
bound for the International Space
Station. The spacecraft has been