This New Ocean: The History of Space Flight

Administrative:

Syllabus
Schombert's Schedule
Academic Calendar
Academic Learning Services

Internet Resources:

Solar System Live
Unit Converter

Strobel Web Textbook
Hartmann Web Textbook
Positional Astronomy

21st Century Science
Astronomy/Physics Glossary

astronautix.com
Apollo Program
Cold War Program

Meteor Showers and Comets
Greek Alphabet
Exponents and Logarithms
Temperature Scale

AST121: The Solar System
AST122: Birth and Death of Stars

NSSDC Spacecraft List
Manned Spacecraft
NASA History

Lectures:

  1. Mar 31: Early Rocketery
  2. Apr 02: Galileo/Newton
  3. Apr 04: Goddard/WWII
  4. Apr 07: X Projects
  5. Apr 09: Orbits/ICBM's
  6. Apr 11: Cape Canaveral
  7. Apr 14: Sputnik/Vanguard
  8. Apr 16: Vostok/Mercury
  9. Apr 18: Early Satellites
  10. Apr 21: Voshkod/Gemini
  11. Apr 23: Planetary Probes
  12. Apr 25: Space Tragedy
  13. Apr 28: Midterm Exam
  1. Apr 30: Saturn V
  2. May 02: Apollo
  3. May 09: Space Science
  4. May 12: Launch Systems
  5. May 14: Military Space Forces
  6. May 16: Mars Missions
  7. May 19: Outer Planets/Grand Tour
  8. May 21: Skylab/Salyut
  9. May 23: Spaceplane
  10. May 28 Space Shuttle
  11. May 30: Hubble
  12. Jun 02: Space Station
  13. Jun 04: FTL
  14. Jun 06: Final Exam


We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of preeminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new, terrifying theater of war.

John F. Kennedy
September 12, 1962

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