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Note: The launch of the CRS-5  is set for 6:20 am ET, January 6, on SpaceX-5 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, adjacent to Kennedy Space Center, Florida. I thought it would be important to put up a blog post on the October 28, 2014, loss of Orb-3 and the SSEP Mission 6  Yankee Clipper payload of experiments, something that could capture the experience in that moment. I think it is an important story to share with the thousands of SSEP students across the nation and in Canada who are invested in this program. It’s a rare and powerful teachable moment on the realities of exploration on...

Chandler Park Academy students take home national prize for science experiment Students conducted experiment on tomato seed germination as part of the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program Updated:  Tags:  Katherine Johnson worked in aeronautics and calculated complex equations that helped NASA put people in Space. Mae Jemison was a doctor, engineer and astronaut, who is the first African American woman in Space. They are all well known African Americans that pursued a career in STEM -- science, technology, engineering and math -- and there’s a push to get more Black Americans to choose...

Nightside Report Feb. 15, 2021: Metro Detroit woman unable to get car back from Canada due to border closure, Road crews out in full force ahead of winter storm Here are tonight’s top stories Tags:  Metro Detroit woman unable to get car back from Canada due to border closure DETROIT – The continued closure of the U.S.-Canada border during the COVID-19 pandemic has left many families unable to see loved ones in person. Kim Richardson took an international trip just before the pandemic led to the border closing. She flew out of Toronto to save some money and parked her car in a lot near th...

HAYWARD - When the SpaceX Cargo Dragon 2 ship returned to Earth from the International Space Station this week, it carried onboard a very special package for a tribal school in Wisconsin — fish eggs. A team of eighth-grade students from the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe School in Hayward had sent the rainbow trout eggs to astronauts for experiments in space as part of the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program in partnership with NASA. It was the first tribal school to participate in the program and only the second school in Wisconsin. Students Evan Heath, Kane LaRonge and Thomas White will a...

When the SpaceX Cargo Dragon 2 ship returned to Earth from the International Space Station this week, it carried onboard a very special package for a tribal school in Wisconsin - fish eggs.