A Brief History of Human Spaceflight

Coursera, a website featuring free online education classes, has a class about spaceflight.  I enrolled, and I can't wait to start!

They say:

"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."

It is offered by the University of Houston System.  The course is designed to be completed in no more than eight (8) weeks.  Courses follow a week-based schedule, and you can go faster, if you like.

Rocket Team astronauts have to stay current on their training, and this is one way to do it.

More info here: https://www.coursera.org/learn/human-spaceflight

If you join the class, let me know how it went.  Email me at

RamoneRocketeer -at- gmail -dot- com.