JAN 15Introduction
HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF EXPLORATION: JAN 18 - FEB 10 (approximate)READING (link)
LECTURE NOTES
Lecture Notes 01(PPT) | Lecture Notes 01(PDF)
Lecture Notes 02(PPT) | Lecture Notes 02(PDF)
Lecture Notes 03(PPT) | Lecture Notes 03(PDF)
Lecture Notes 04(PPT) | Lecture Notes 04(PDF)
EARLY MAPS OF THE WORLD
Ancient World Maps
Fra Mauro Map of the World (1450)
Kangnido Map (1402)
BRIDGING THE DARK AGES
Ptolemy
Marco Polo
EUROPE REACHES OUT
Age of Discovery
Overview of Portuguese Explorations (your all in one webpage!)
Prince Henry (The Navigator)
Vasco De Gama
Ferdinand Magellan
Captain James Cook
CHINA REACHES OUT
Overview of China and Expeditions (your all in one webpage!)
Zheng He (Cheng Ho)
Zheng He (his ships)HISTORICAL EVENTS BY CENTURY Timeline of Inventions
Major events of the 13th century (1201-1300)
Major events of the 14th century (1301-1400)
Major events of the 15th century (1401-1500)
Major events of the 16th century (1501-1600)
Major events of the 17th century (1601-1700)
Major events of the 18th century (1701-1800)
Major events of the 19th century (1801-1900)
Major events of the 20th century (1901-2000)
Note: the 20th century saw an explosion in literature, war, art, science, and population and it requires pages upon pages on Wikipedia to cover all of it (whereas all previous centuries can be summarized on one Wiki page!). That tells you right there that the 20th century sis a critical transition century leading into the next millinium. See the "See also" at the bottom of the 20th century Wiki page.EXAM 1
Pioneers/Cold War Rocketry
LECTURE NOTES
[Space Pioneers] Lecture Notes 01(PPT) | Lecture Notes 01(PDF)
[Cold War/Rocketry] Lecture Notes 02(PPT) | Lecture Notes 02(PDF)
[Newton's 3 Laws] Lecture Notes 03(PPT) | Lecture Notes 03(PDF)
[Rocket Science] Lecture Notes 04(PPT) | Lecture Notes 04(PDF)MOVIES (to be shown in class)
To the Moon (PBS)
Moonshot (Turner)
COLD WAR LINKS
The Cold War (1945-1991)
China Civil War (begun April 1927, resumed 1946, ended 1950)
Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 - 12 May 1949)
Korean Conflict (25 June 1950 - armistice signed 27 July 1953)
Sputnik (4 October 1957)
Bay of Pigs Invasion (April 1961)
Cuban Missile Crisis (October 1962)
Vietnam War (26 September 26 1959 - 30 April 1975)
Able Archer (September 1983)
Strategic Defense Initiative (23 March 1983 - 1990)
Fall of Berlin Wall (1989)
Tiananmen Square (April 1989)
Science Fiction Writers (@ Wikipedia)
Arthur C. Clarke
Robert Heinlein
Jules Verne
H. G. Wells
Rocket Pioneers (@ Wikipedia)
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Robert Goddard (@ Wikipedia)
Robert Goddard (@ NASA)
Robert Goddard (A Man and his Rockets, @ NASA)
Wernher Von Braun
Hermann Oberth
Sergey Korolyov
Qian Xuesen
NACA and NASA
NACA (@ Wikipedia)
NASA (@ Wikipedia)
History of NACA and NASA
NASA HomeSpace Task Group and NASA Pioneers
Maxime Faget
Robert Gilruth
Christopher Kraft
Eugene Kranz
James E. WebbRockets and Orbits
History Timeline of Rockets (@ NASA)
Rocket Basics (@ NASA Edu)
Brief History of Rockets (@ NASA Edu)
Manned Mercury, Gemini, & Apollo Missions
Project Mercury
Project Mercury (@N ASA)
NASA Mission Pages
Project Mercury Goals (@ NASA)
@ Wikipedia
Lovelace's Women! (@ NASA)
The Mercury 13 Women (@ Wikipedia)Project Gemini
Project Geminin (@ NASA)
NASA Mission Pages
Project Gemini Goals (@ NASA)
@ Wikipedia
Apollo Program
@ Wikipedia
Apollo Missions (@ NASA)
NASA Apollo History/ResourcesMoon Landing Conspiracy Theories
@ Wikipedia
Russian Space Program
@ Wikipedia
Russian Federal Space Agency (@ Wikipedia)
Russian Federal Space Agency Home
Soviet Moon Landing Program
Guide2Russia.com
Chinese Space Program
@ Wikipedia
Manned Space Missions
Chinese National Space Administration Home
NASA's Future
NASA Moon, Mars, and Beyond
Constellation ProjectSpace Truckers
Virgin Galactic
SpaceX
Spaceport America (in New Mexico)
Space Societies
The Mars Society
The Moon Society
National Space Society
Ad Astra (NNS publication)
Space Settlement
Milestones to Space Settlement
Barriers to Space Settlement