Lecture

Human Spaceflight: Overview

Related lectures (32)

Introduces space mission design, covering human and robotic missions, trajectories, energy management, and propulsion.

Covers the lessons learned from space exploration, including the post-Apollo missions and the International Space Station.

Lessons from Space Exploration

Explores the lessons and advancements in space exploration, focusing on Skylab, Space Shuttle, and ISS.

Space Stations & International Cooperation

Explores the evolution of space stations and global partnerships in space exploration.

Space Shuttle: Operations and Missions

Explores the Space Shuttle program, including missions, components, and key events like the Challenger and Columbia accidents.

History of Space Exploration

By Claude Nicollier delves into the history and future of space exploration, emphasizing sustainability and commercial opportunities.

Space Mission Design and Operations

Explores the history and future of space exploration, covering major events in 2022-2023 and the design of missions beyond Earth's atmosphere.

Space Exploration 2024: Upcoming Missions and Opportunities

Outlines the key space exploration missions and developments planned for 2024, including NASA's Artemis 2 and SpaceX's Crew 8 missions.

Private Space Missions to ISS

Covers private space missions to the ISS, including future plans, nodal regression, Sun-synchronous orbits, and rendezvous strategies.

Tethered Satellite Missions

Explores a real tether mission, discussing deployment challenges and unexpected outcomes.

Space Mission Design and Operations

Explores space mission design, historical spacewalks, Artemis program, Mars missions, and suborbital spaceflights.

Space Mission Design and Operations

Explores space mission design, shuttle missions, propulsion, attitude control, and astronaut selection.

Lessons learned from Space exploration

Explores the history, challenges, and future of space exploration, including human spaceflight incidents and significant missions.

Space Shuttle: Liftoff and Orbit

Explores the preparation, liftoff, and on-orbit activities of the Space Shuttle crew.

Space Mission Design: Starship Test and Rendezvous Techniques

Discusses SpaceX's Starship test flight and the principles of rendezvous in space missions.

Orbital Maneuvers and Rendezvous

Explores orbital maneuvers, special orbits, and rendezvous in space missions, with a focus on the Space Shuttle approaching the International Space Station.

Introduction to Aerospace Engineering

Covers the fundamentals of aerospace engineering, including space mission design concepts and personal experiences from the instructor's time in space.

Space Shuttle: Selected Missions

Covers selected Space Shuttle missions, satellite repair, recovery, and telescope deployment, as well as ISS assembly and program history.

Space Shuttle Columbia Accident

Covers the tragic Space Shuttle Columbia accident in 2003.

Space Mission Design and Operations

Explores the Ax-1 space mission to the ISS, nodal regression, Sun-synchronous orbits, Shuttle and ATV missions, and Crew Dragon's rendezvous with the ISS.