Our partner Jeff Goldstein of the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education has launched with NanoRacks a wonderful national STEM program that will launch on STS-134. The Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP), is a remarkable U.S. national Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education initiative that gives up to 3,200 students the ability to design real experiments to fly in low Earth orbit on the ISS.

NanoRacks’ DreamUP! is currently developing a national program for STEM space missions targeted at historically disadvantaged colleges. We are in discussions with a range of organizations, including the National Lab Education Office.

Our friends at Entropy Engineering have been awarded a 2010 NASA SBIR to develop a NanoRacks compatible standardized data processing, communication, and control module –a sort of circuit board geared for both student and research payloads. We are looking forward to their products to greatly lower the hurdles to developing stand-alone payloads for use with the NanoRacks Platforms.

We are working with XCOR Aerospace to develop a seamless system of microgravity research opportunities from suborbital to space station.

We work with Astrium NA to provide customers with access to the extremes of space through our joint External Platform Program on the space station.