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this is Mission Control Houston as we

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take a loo inside the space station

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flight control room here at the Johnson

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Space Center we're gonna go now to dr.

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Jeff Goldstein who is part of the center

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director he is the center director of

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the National Center for Earth and space

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science education up in Maryland he is

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intimately involved with some of these

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student experiments that are flying up

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on the orbital science this is a dr.

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Goldstein first of all welcome to a NASA

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television how are you doing very good

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so let's talk about what's ahead for

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this flight it's been a long wait for

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this particular mission it was due to

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launch in December now it's we're here

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we are in January with it on the pad

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ready to go talk about first of all

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what's onboard and sort of the the

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excitement from the student side are

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they ready to go and ready to take a

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look at this rocket as it heads up to

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the space station yeah everybody's

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really looking forward to this

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we have 23 experiments that are flying

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as part of the student Space Flight

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experiments program and each of these

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experiments represents a community

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across the u.s. we even have one

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community in Stonewall Manitoba Canada

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where each community had a real science

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competition to design and select a and

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experiment to fly to the International

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Space Station in diverse science

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disciplines so each of these experiments

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represents the culmination of hundreds

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of students that were fully immersed in

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microgravity experiment design and

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proposal writing

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so we have the SSEP program has two

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flight Opportunities a year and we've

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got 12 experiments on our mission 3b

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payload going up and 11 experiments on

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our mission for payload going up and

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these students are really excited

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they're they're all going to be

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conducting their ground truth

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experiments at the same time the

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experiments are being conducted on orbit

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and we've got experiments in

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microbiology stem cell research

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nanotubes mutations of DNA fermentation

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and space development of salamander

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salamander eggs really a very wide

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variety of research disciplines so how

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do these students

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with these experiments because taking a

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look at them you know I got admitted

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it's quite a bit different than some of

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the stuff that I studied whenever I was

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in I was in junior high in high school I

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mean some of it yeah this is real

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science that they're doing so you know

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how do they how do they come up with it

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and what is it like for them to actually

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fly something actually up to the space

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station itself yeah it's a very good

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question you know I think the first

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starting point to answer that is to say

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that what we wanted to do is present a

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program that provides an absolutely

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authentic immersion in every facet of

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real research to students and it's a

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recognition that our students are fully

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capable of doing that kind of research I

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mean researchers are in the business of

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organized curiosity and evidence-based

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learning for the in for the human race

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but our children are born curious and

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they're born evidence-based learners so

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they're fully capable of taking this on

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and so the idea is to recognize that the

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the idea of microgravity research is

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that if you put a system whether it's a

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physical chemical or biological system

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in a freely falling environment like the

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International Space Station it will

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behave as if gravity is seemingly turned

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off and so if you want to understand

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what the role of gravity is in a

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physical chemical or biological system

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you can take it to a freely falling lab

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like ISS and do the same experiment on

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earth with gravity present and a

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comparison of those two experiments when

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they come back allows you to assess the

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role of gravity so what these students

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are really doing is looking at the world

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around them and asking a very simple

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question what kind of physical chemical

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or biological system that do I see an

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operation here that I would like to

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assess in terms of the role of gravity

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in that system and so it's really how

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scientists do their thing in the

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professional world they see a problem

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that's exciting to them they pose it in

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a way that could secure research assets

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and they go in a farm do you think this

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will inspire some of the students you

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know as they get into college and in you

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know choose what kind of career they

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want to head toward do you think that

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this will sort of be a launching pad for

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some of them but

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figuratively absolutely we are seeing so

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much information on the impact of this

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program not only in terms of changing

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students view of how science and

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research are actually done and the

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possibilities that they can get involved

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in a career in STEM education it's also

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changing the way teachers teach because

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this is really about ownership and

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learning being able to ask powerful

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questions critical thinking

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problem-solving being able to navigate

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an interdisciplinary landscape at will

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which is what researchers all do and we

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in fact even have a scholarly

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publication out of this one of the high

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school students that started off on the

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final two flights of the shuttle now has

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a publication in a refereed journal so

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what we're really seeing here is

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influence on on the next generation of

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scientists and engineers so for teachers

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and students that are out there watching

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this you know when's the next

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opportunity that they could fly

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something if they're interested in what

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do they need to do well if they if they

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do a Google search on student Space

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Flight experiments program it will take

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us take them right to our website and

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the next flight opportunity is mission

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seven to the International Space Station

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there's going to be a formal national

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announcement in February but they

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certainly can contact us now on the

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contact button on the website and

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mission seven has an experiment design

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phase in in fall of 2014 with a flight

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to ISS scheduled for spring of 2015 so

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it's all the 2014-2015 academic year and

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each community that participates in the

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program is providing a real microgravity

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research mini laboratory and launch

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services to get that mini lab containing

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a single student team designed

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experiment to ISS have an astronaut

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operate the experiment according to the

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student protocol and have it returned

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safely for harvesting and analysis and

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this program by the way I should point

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out is made possible through a Space Act

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agreement between NASA and NanoRacks to

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fly commercial payloads so this is I

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believe the first you

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national stem education initiative that

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provides on-orbit access done on the

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commercial space side and all of the

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students the thousands of students

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participating in this program understand

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that they're part of the history of this

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new era of commercial space well to take

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a look at more information about the

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student experience that are flying as

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part of this orbital sciences flight

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this week we invite you to log on to

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nasa.gov slash orbital we've got links

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there to dr. Jeff Goldstein so web page

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the home page for the student

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experiments you can read about what the

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kids and students are going to be doing

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as well as the schools that they're from