No specific requirement is needed

The student acquires knowledge about the history of astronautics, the commercial and scientific use of space, as well as notions about the operation of specifically aerospace technologies. As a result, the student will become familiar with the history of exploration and exploitation of space, acquiring basic training in this field.

Unit 1: The first dreamers and visionaries. Frau im Mond (1929) Towards space travel. When the story begins. Imagining space travel. Spaceflight literature. Promoting space travel. Pioneers and visionaries. Unit 2: The first missiles. The vengeance weapon V-2 (1944) Times of Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. V-2. Rockets and the birth of the Cold War. Unit 3: The dawn of the Space Age. Sputnik (1957) Treaty of Rome and Sputnik. Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. International Astronautical Federation. Rockets and Atmospheric exploration. IGY Sputnik and the birth of the space era. Unit 4: The Giant Leap. Apollo 11 (1969) The Giant Leap. First Man in Orbit. Moon Race. Apollo. Unit 5: Space Cooperation. Birth of ESA (1975) Post-Moon-race cooperation. Soyuz-Apollo programme. ESA example of cooperation. The International Space Station (ISS). Unit 6: Using space for Humankind. The exploitation of space Today¿s life needs space. Telecommunications. Earth Observation. GNSS. Space Situational Awareness. Space technologies back on the Earth. Unit 7: Looking ahead. Ambition (2015) Human Exploration of the Solar System. Robotic Exploration of the Solar System. Scientific Exploration of the Universe. Space Tourism.

The course will be followed as a Small Private Online Course. There will be two lectures of external specialists.