This course provides a view of the history of spaceflight, from early writings telling of human's fascination of space through the early Russian and American space stations. Developed as an interesting and entertaining slice of space history that is accessible to anyone with an interest in human spaceflight
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A Brief History of Human Spaceflight
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Learner Career Outcomes
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University of Houston
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Introduction
A welcome video and course syllabus
Unit 1 - Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Learn about the Apollo 11 moon landing with interesting interviews with the astronauts who made history
Unit 2 - Humankind’s Musings on Space Travel
Learn about how previous generations thought about the possibility of space travel
Unit 3 - Early Rocketry
Learn about how rockets were developed from the ancient Chinese through today's powerful rockets
Reviews
TOP REVIEWS FROM A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT
Great summary and overview of manned spaceflight in the 60s and 70s. Plenty of archival footage and rarely seen recordings from both the U S and Soviet space programs.
Really enjoying this course hope you will do more courses on the Space program i.e. Space shuttles etc, and rocket science/maths would be good as well..
It's very knowledgeable course about space history ever I get. So nice and neatly presented work. Thank you for giving such a great experience.
As an aerospace engineering student, I gained historical background about my profession. I hope there will be a second part of this course.
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