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. Jan 05: Early Rocketery
  2. Jan 07: Galileo/Newton
  3. Jan 09: Goddard/WWII
  4. Jan 12: X Projects
  5. Jan 14: Orbits/ICBM's
  6. Jan 16: Cape Canaveral
  7. Jan 21: Sputnik/Vanguard
  8. Jan 23: Vostok/Mercury
  9. Jan 26: Early Satellites
  10. Jan 28: Voshkod/Gemini
  11. Jan 30: Planetary Probes
  12. Feb 02: Space Tragedy
  13. Feb 04: Saturn V
  14. Feb 06: Midterm Exam
  1. Feb 09: Apollo
  2. Feb 11: Space Science
    No Classes, Feb 13 & 16
  3. Feb 18: Launch Systems
  4. Feb 20: Military Space Forces
  5. Feb 23: Mars Missions
  6. Feb 25: Outer Planets/Grand Tour
  7. Feb 27: Skylab/Salyut
  8. Mar 02: Spaceplane
  9. Mar 04 Space Shuttle
  10. Mar 06: Hubble
  11. Mar 09: Space Station
  12. Mar 11: FTL
  13. Mar 13: 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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