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Crewed Space Exploration
Space exploration's history and future
Created byTony Ceraso
Last updated 2/2026
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What you'll learn
- Take a trip with the first people to land on the moon and see why the Space Shuttle changed everything about space travel. Explore our plans to go back to the moon and then on to Mars.
- Objective and Warm-up Activity
- Humanity's Next Steps in Space
- The Apollo Moon landings, including the political climate that let up to them
- Exploration and the human spirit
- The space shuttle and rocket reusability
- Achievements and components of the Space Shuttle Program
- Failures of the shuttle program: The Challenger and Columbia disasters
- The dangers of spaceflight
- The International Space Station
- Preparing to go back to the moon
- Preparing to go to Mars: Equipment and People
- The effects of prolonged weightlessness on the human body
- The effects of long-term space flight on the human body
- Living in Space
- The next generation of spacecraftss
- the XPrize and the private industry in space
- Test questions, Answer key and Cross Curricular and Extension Activities
- My name is Tony Ceraso and I will be your instructor. I sometimes run the planetarium and have written curriculum for the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. I have also written curriculum for NASA’s school visitation program and teach on the college level in NJ. My goal is for you to thoroughly enjoy this lesson. I love astronomy and I want nothing more out of our time together than for you to have a greater appreciation for the universe through the understanding of this material. Besides the lesson I’m going to preview for you now, the course includes warm up activities, test questions, and cross-curricular activities for you to download as a supplement.
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Course content
9 sections • 10 lectures • 2h 14m total length
Requirements
- None
Description
Manned Space Exploration
Take a trip with the first people to land on the moon and see why the Space Shuttle changed everything about space travel. Explore our plans to go back to the moon and then on to Mars.
This Course includes the following great BONUS LESSONS:
What on Earth is Astronomy?
Mini-Lesson: Eclipses
Mini-Lesson: Meteor Showers
Mini-Lesson: Aurora
Project Artemis: America Returns to the Moon
Manned Space Exploration
1. Objective
2. Warm-up activity
3. Humanity’s next steps in space
4. The Apollo Moon landings, including the political climate that led up to them
5. Exploration and the human spirit
6. The space shuttle program and reusability
7. Achievements and components of the space shuttle program
8. Failures of the shuttle program: the Challenger and Columbia disasters
9. The dangers of space flight
10. The International Space Station
11. Preparing for Mars: equipment and people
12. The effects of weightlessness on the human body
13. Living in space long-term
14. The space shuttle’s replacements: U.S. private industry and the Russian Soyuz crafts
15. The XPRIZE and private industry in space
16. Test questions
17. Cross-curricular activities
My name is Tony Ceraso and I will be your instructor. I sometimes run the planetarium and have written curriculum for the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. I have also written curriculum for NASA’s school visitation program and teach on the college level in NJ.
My goal is for you to thoroughly enjoy this lesson. I love astronomy and I want nothing more out of our time together than for you to have a greater appreciation for the universe through the understanding of this material. Besides the lesson I’m going to preview for you now, the course includes warm up activities, test questions, and cross-curricular activities for you to download as a supplement.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who wants to know more about Astronomy