Introduction to Aerospace Engineering: Astronautics and Human Spaceflight

• What is Engineering?
• What is Aerospace Engineering?
• The Scale of Things: An Aerospace Perspective
• Basics of Rocket Propulsion
• Solid Rockets
• Liquid Rockets
• Water Bottle Rockets
• The Ideal Rocket Equation
• Implications of the Rocket Equation
• Rocket Staging
• The Effects of Gravity and Atmospheric Drag, Part 1
• The Effects of Gravity and Atmospheric Drag, Part 2
• Other Types of Propulsion Systems
• Traveling on a Rocket
• Introduction to Control Theory
• Control System Overview
• Control System Design
• Introduction to Structural Engineering
• The Role of Materials in Structural Engineering
• Overview of ECLSS Requirements
• Food and Personal Hygiene in Space
• Temperature and Humidity Control
• Atmospheric Pressure and Composition
• Oxygen Supply
• Carbon Dioxide Removal, Part 1