Learner Reviews & Feedback for A Brief History of Human Spaceflight by University of Houston
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TT
Jun 28, 2020
I learned a lot more information about human space evolution, which I had never heard of before.
Some details that are unknown to the common gnete while with this course I managed to learn them.
PH
Nov 30, 2015
Great summary and overview of manned spaceflight in the 60s and 70s. Plenty of archival footage and rarely seen recordings from both the U S and Soviet space programs.
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By Tony A
•Oct 24, 2015
Good course, but could be more challenging. For people growing up with the space race it has a lot of interesting video and written material.
But there are a lot of simple errors in the material and the assignments. Hopefully that will be addressed. I'd give it 4/5 once it's all sorted.
Recommended if you can cope with the odd frustration.
By Niclas H
•Apr 12, 2022
Rather low production value (e.g. YouTube clips stitched together with some text), akin to a PowerPoint presentation and supplementary pdf.
Heavily focused on the US space program. It would have been interesting to know a bit about other Human Spaceflight programs (e.g. ESA and CNSA) that were planned or executed.
By Antonio
•Jan 21, 2021
Great contents, I had the chance to see contents I have never watched before. It's a great source of history of human spaceflight. Perhaps more videoclips for Russian space program (especially space stations) would be lovely.
By Nicholas M
•May 25, 2021
Not all of the information was accurate, but the class was fun and entertaining.
By Antonis T
•Jun 16, 2022
Can be interesting as a hostorical review for beginners and hobbyists
By Laurent M
•Nov 3, 2015
Videos could be bigger and reduce the echo in particular
By Em
•Jan 31, 2016
Its an interesting course.
By Suganth R
•Jun 21, 2017
This course although a storehouse of valuable information (lots of exclusive videos) about space exploration, tends to be a historical recollection at times. Overall a good one to boost your knowledge on human endeavor in space.
By Lisapher
•May 9, 2021
Sorry, but I found this to be a very poorly put together course. The jumping from video's and links that were required reading/viewing and then a number of optional videos and readings was confusing. As well as having to jump from the video to the pdf to access the links was also confusing and I found my self getting lost.
By Jason M
•Oct 11, 2015
The URLs for the course's required readings are presented as non-clickable text in the course lecture videos. There is no list of URLs for the readings available which I could find, and to take this course students are required to copy dozens of long, cumbersome web addresses from the videos.
By Aubin, P
•Nov 6, 2015
Very interesting, but I was really hoping more. For example, the professor does not teah us directly, like all the other courses on Coursera. It is only texts and archive videos.....Youtube would have done the same. Disappointed.