EIS will design, engineer, build, launch, orbit, recover, tour, and exhibit a spacecraft named NSS Enterprise to engage the next generation in STEAM education using an artificial intelligence (AI) and student team contests to win an opportunity to orbit one of 100+ experiments. The highly publicized launch and return of the first spacecraft named "Enterprise" with the AI conversing with students in natural language about their experiments will call attention to the project and allow us to develop the AI into a tutor for every student on Earth.

The mission of EIS is to motivate students everywhere to reach for the stars, fostering a lifelong commitment toward building a better future for humanity, empowering teachers to drive educational change and equipping students with the skills to do it. The EIS program is developing a freely distributed online space science curriculum that will interface with an AI tutor, named Ali, and spaceflight opportunities to provide a robust, interdisciplinary, multi-layered learning experience. Winning experiments will orbit and return at no flight cost to teachers, schools or students. To achieve this vision, EIS is forming partnerships with schools, non-governmental organizations, business, and government agencies. This project will demonstrate and pioneer new technologies while inspiring and encouraging space enterprise, and is a tribute to the many great visionaries of science and science fiction.