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About the Course

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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TT

Jun 28, 2020

I learned a lot more information about human space evolution, which I had never heard of before.

Some details that are unknown to the common gnete while with this course I managed to learn them.

PH

Nov 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.

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By Arunima G

Jul 12, 2021

amazing experience

By Sacha T

Dec 10, 2015

Realy interesting

By Andrés F M B

Sep 10, 2021

Great course.

By Shabeermon M

Sep 26, 2019

great course

By Richard H

Jan 2, 2017

100 percent!

By Ben T

Oct 7, 2016

it wasnt bad

By Bart S

May 18, 2016

do it again!

By julio b

Feb 26, 2018

excellent!

By Andrei H

Mar 24, 2017

Very good.

By kosteletos k

Nov 21, 2016

perfect.

By Debjyoti

Jun 6, 2016

Awesome!

By Md K I

Jun 22, 2020

Awesome

By 王晴宇

Apr 12, 2016

很清晰很好

By 胡锦龙

Jan 29, 2016

great

By Patel R B

Jun 7, 2021

good

By John W B

Jan 16, 2017

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By Steve X

Nov 9, 2015

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By Kathi J

Jan 30, 2021

I loved the topic. I've always had a passion for the Mercury-Gemini-Apollo era and still learned some things about them and topics beyond. It was nice to have the readings and videos compiled this way. We see Dr. Layne's photo a lot, and he mentions some of his work in the lecture PDFs he doesn't give the lectures. The course has a female narrator. She mispronounced some well-known words from space history, like Gemini, Schirra, Aldrin, etc. I don't have confidence she knew the subject matter. Also, there were a couple of quiz errors in Unit 10 (Mir): Quiz 1 Question 1: correct answer is 1986, not 1896 - but 1896 game me success! Quiz 2 Question 2: I looked at goals several times and looked for nuances in wording and, unless I'm missing something that's very subtle, correct answer is All of the Above. However I had to select answer B to pass. There were a few other nits but it was a free course to me. I chose not to buy completion certificate based on the flaws but still enjoyed it overall. Thanks for the offering.

By Holly P

Feb 27, 2021

I thoroughly enjoyed this course and I am only sad that the University appears to no longer the offer the courses that follow on from this. I learnt many things I didn't know and had a chance to refresh information I did know. The only reason I gave the course four stars is that a number of the hyperlinks no longer worked or linked to "unsafe" sites. Other then that I really enjoyed this course and would definitely recommend for those interested in spaceflight

By Ariella B

Aug 23, 2020

This was a great overview early space programs. Thank you for putting it together! I really enjoyed viewing the recordings of launches and spaceflight missions that I hadn't previously seen. My only issue with the class is that there is music playing over the lectures and videos, which can sometimes be too loud and make it hard to hear the content. Otherwise, great class!

By Julia C

Jul 18, 2017

I really enjoyed this course and learned a lot from it. Information for the course is provided in different formats which is nice too. The links to old footage and audio from spaceflight in the past were fascinating. I wouldn't mind doing this course again in a few years time when my memory of the specifics has faded!

By John K H

Oct 30, 2015

Fascinating overview but was hoping for a bit more depth. Did learn new things though, particulalry about the not so well publicised Apollo missions and the early Russian efforts. A couple of quiz questions were marking right answers as wrong but course team got them sorted fairly quickly

By Joseph S

May 20, 2020

Good overall course. The only reason I don't give it 5 stars is because of dead links in some required readings and typos in some slides. The course could use a refresh to ensure that all links are current and that mistakes in the presentation are corrected.

By Sherre L B

Nov 16, 2023

There are many broken links on the PDFs for each unit. There are a few significant errors on the quizzes. Enjoyed the course. Would have enjoyed hearing the history of the Space Shuttle program and the beginning of the International Space Station program.

By Sebastian S

Feb 21, 2017

Really fun and interesting class if you want to learn a lot more details about a fantastic time in science history. Videos could be improved somewhat avoiding repeating information included in lecture pdfs. Other than that, everything was great!