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This course is a detailed technical and historical exploration of the Apollo project to “fly humans to the moon and return them safely to earth” as an example of a complex engineering system.
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Description
Emphasis is on how the systems worked, the technical and social processes that produced them, mission operations, and historical significance. Guest lectures are featured by MIT-affiliated engineers who contributed to and participated in the Apollo missions. Students work in teams on a final project analyzing an aspect of the historical project to articulate and synthesize ideas in engineering systems.
Course content
- Introduction and overview Unlimited
- Apollo as a complex system Unlimited
- Historical/technical analysis of engineering systems Unlimited
- Systems engineering and atlas Unlimited
- Organizing research from NACA to NASA Unlimited
- Sputnik, Mercury, and the Cold War Unlimited
- Kennedy’s decision: From politics to engineering specs Unlimited
- The LOR decision Unlimited
- The Soviet moon program Unlimited
- Gemini and early Apollo engineering Unlimited
- Apollo guidance and control Unlimited
- Astronautical guidance Unlimited
- Engineering the LEM Unlimited
- Designing a landing Unlimited
- NASA’s current moon plans Unlimited
- Apollo software Unlimited
- Apollo 11 Unlimited
- Apollo 14: An astronaut’s view Unlimited
- Apollo 12 and group project freetime Unlimited
- Covering Apollo: The role of the press Unlimited
- Life support and human factors I Unlimited
- Bob Parker: Scientist-astronauts and lunar science Unlimited
- Student presentations wrap-up Unlimited
- Final class Unlimited
Instructor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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