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ISU provides an interdisciplinary education in the context of an intercultural and international environment to support the development of future leaders in the world space community. The SSP offers its participants a unique and comprehensive education covering all aspects of space programs and enterprises including space physical sciences, space systems engineering, policy and law, business and management, space and society, satellite applications, and space life sciences and human spaceflight.

Each summer ISU offers this intense nine-week course designed for post-graduate university students and professionals of all experience levels and disciplines. The site of the SSP changes annually, making it a unique educational concept and building on the fundamental ISU tenant of an international experience.

The SSP core lecture series serves as the foundation on which the more in-depth activities undertaken in the seven departments are built. The team projects provide the participants with an international and intercultural team working experience wherein they must not only refine the topic as a team, but also produce professional quality reports and final presentations, all in the span of a few weeks.

This year, the NASA KSC is also sponsoring one of the four Team Projects to be executed during the session. The topic of this project is, appropriately, Future Spaceports, the goal of which is to recommend architectures, transformative technologies, and design processes that enable an expansion of Earth-based spaceport capabilities to on-orbit and planetary surface spaceports. The project will be led by NASA experts from NASA KSC.