Posting of lecture notes here will be haphazard. Materials that are in electronic format will be posted; the rest will be handed out in class only. Warning: some of these files are very big (more than 30MB)!

31 August 2009 Launch Vehicles and Constellation: Ares and Orion Link to the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee 9 September 2009 The International Space Station: Living in Space (Shoshe Cole) Link to the Summary Report of the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee 14 September 2009 Working in Space: Science on the International Space Station (Shoshe Cole) Link to International Space Station Science Research Accomplishments During the Assembly Years: An Analysis of Results from 2000-2008 16-28 September 2009 History of Human Spaceflight 28 September 2009 History of Robotic Spaceflight 5 October 2009 Groundbased and Airborne Astronomy (Terry Herter) 17 October 2009 The Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn (Matt Hedman) 26-28 October 2009 The Cassini Plutonium Controversy 28 October and 2 November 2009 The Mars Global Surveyor Spacecraft 9 November 2009 The Sky is Falling: Meteorites, Asteroids, and Impacts (Wes Watters) 11 November 2009 Exploring Comets (Joe Veverka) 18 November 2009 The Solar System (Shoshe Cole) Return to the Astro 280 home page Last updated 19 November 2009 by Shoshanna Cole.