A Brief History of Human Spaceflight

 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


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A Brief History of Human Spaceflight


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