When you receive your flight mini-lab take a moment to reflect on the fact that it just came back fr

The Falcon I payload of 7 SSEP Mission 3a experiments returned to Earth aboard Soyuz 35S, with touchdown in Kazakhstan at 9:49 PM EST, Sunday November 10, 2013 (see November 10 Blog Post .) The payload was then air-freighted to NanoRacks in Houston, where the mini-labs were removed from the payload box.
When you receive your flight mini-lab take a moment to reflect on the fact that it just came back from low Earth orbit. It reached orbit on September 29, and returned on November 10, so it was on orbit for exactly 6 weeks, or 42 days. Given that in low Earth orbit, discount rental car in canada a single orbit of the Earth takes about 90 minutes, your mini-lab made about 670 orbits of the Earth. But one orbit of the Earth is a distance of  about 25,000 miles. So that mini-lab, and whatever was inside it, travelled 670 x 25,000 miles = 16,750,000 discount rental car in canada miles. That is like going to the Moon and back 35 times.
The Student Space Flight Experiments Program [or SSEP] is undertaken by the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) , a project of the 501(c)(3) Tides Center , in partnership with NanoRacks, LLC .
This on-orbit educational research opportunity is enabled through NanoRacks, discount rental car in canada LLC , which is working in partnership with NASA under a Space Act Agreement as part of the utilization of the International Space Station as a National Laboratory.