Mike's books Short courses: space systems and space misions
Videos
Space: From
Firecrackers to Interstellar Flight (webcast)
Part 1. The First Thousand Years. (87 min)
Part 2. Space in 21st
Century. (84 min)
Classic space movies and videos Models of spacecraft and rockets
The Road to Space. The
First Thousand Years. (1 hr 10 min; 390MB)
Fifty years ago, the Soviet Union and the
United States launched into space the first artificial satellites of the
Earth. The lecture (recorded in January 2007) presents the fascinating
story of the events that paved the way to space. It introduces the history
of early rocketry and the subsequent developments which led into the space
age.
It is recommended to
download first the
slides of the presentation
(pdf file).
Also available on Yahoo (Part
1/2;
Part 2/2) and YouTube (Part
1/8;
Part 2/8;
Part 3/8;
Part 4/8;
Part 5/8;
Part 6/8;
Part 7/8;
Part 8/8).
In addition, IAFASTRO posted
the entire
lecture on YouTube as one video clip.
