The SSPI Mid-Atlantic (SSPI-MA) Chapter is reaching new heights: about 330 Km above the earth’s surface, to be more precise.  SSPI-MA is providing funding to support over 800 students from Everett Meredith Middle School, in Middletown, DE, in their participation in the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program’s (SSEP) Mission 10 to the International Space Station. 

This opportunity is made possible by the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE), and its international arm, the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education.  They this is the twelfth SSEP flight opportunity since program inception in 2010.  Mission 10 to ISS officially began on February 22, 2016.

More information is available at http://ssep.ncesse.org/2016/02/ssep-mission-10-to-the-international-space-station-has-begun-welcome-aboard-to-4800-participating-students-across-12-communities-in-the-u-s/