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
University of HoustonAbout this Course
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Approx. 21 hours to complete
English
Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish
Flexible deadlines
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100% online
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Approx. 21 hours to complete
English
Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish
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University of Houston
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
12 minutes to complete
Introduction
A welcome video and course syllabus
12 minutes to complete
1 video (Total 2 min), 1 reading
1 hour to complete
Unit 1 - Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Learn about the Apollo 11 moon landing with interesting interviews with the astronauts who made history
1 hour to complete
1 video (Total 38 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz
2 hours to complete
Unit 2 - Humankind’s Musings on Space Travel
Learn about how previous generations thought about the possibility of space travel
2 hours to complete
1 video (Total 16 min), 1 reading, 3 quizzes
2 hours to complete
Unit 3 - Early Rocketry
Learn about how rockets were developed from the ancient Chinese through today's powerful rockets
2 hours to complete
1 video (Total 35 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes
Reviews
TOP REVIEWS FROM A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT
by PHNov 30, 2015
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.
by WDSep 23, 2021
Excellent material although I found the interface between the course and tests to be clunky. It would have been interesting to her more about the Soyuz missions.
by DMNov 28, 2016
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..
by BVMay 11, 2020
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.
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