Acknowledgements
This free course was written by Tom Wilks and Helen Fraser. It was first published in October 2018.
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Course Image: ©NASA https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc/ 2.0/
Week 1
Figure 1: Activity 2: ©NASA
Figure 2: ©STS-122 Shuttle Crew, NASA
Figure 3: ©NASA
Figure 4: courtesy of Michael Lodge-Paolini
Figure 5: ©International Space Station
Figure 6: ©NASA
Figure 7: ©Alamy
Figure 8: taken from; ‘An illustrated guide to Spacex’s launch vehicle reusability plans’ © John Gardi & Jon Ross
Figure 9: ©NASA/Bill Ingalls
Figure 10: taken from: https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com
Figure 11: ©ScienceABC; https://www.scienceabc.com/ eyeopeners/ why-are-rockets-launched-from-areas-near-the-equator.html
Figure 12: ©The COMET program/EUMETSAT/NASA/NOAA
Week 2
Figure 1: taken from: https://www.bing.com/ images/ search?view=detailV2&ccid=Vz5ziF%2bc&id=6D69846194A1B3404914FFD6BA8156EB47D2A9B0&q=ageing+research+&simid=607988850145953141&selectedIndex=14&ajaxhist=0
Figure 2: taken from: https://seekingalpha.com/article/3978952-health-care-dividend-aristocrat-will-profit-old-age-globally; Source: The Wisdom Years
Figure 3a: ©United Nations
Figure 3b: ©United Nations
Figure 4: ©NASA
Figure 5: taken from https://www.howtogrowtallerx.com/ height-increase-surgery/
Figure 6: ©NASA
Figure 7: ©NASA
Figure 8: ©NASA
Figure 9: Activity 7; ©TemplateHaven.com
Figure 10: Activity 7; ©NASA
Figure 11: taken from: European Heart Journal, Volume 27, Issue 20, 2 October 2006, Pages 2387–2393,
Figure 12: ©Lia Barret
Figure 13: Taken from https://www.bing.com/ images/ search?view=detailV2&ccid=GzNyYMB%2b&id=D363C5A80019F9B477CD9C034BD86EA368CECC3F&q=defibrillator&simid=608053313310689206&selectedIndex=18&ajaxhist=0
Figure 14: courtesy of T.R. Wilks
Video 2: ©Canadian Space Agency
Week 3
Figure 3: taken from: http://richard-feynman.net/ gallery.htm
Figure 4: A GoogleEarth image taken from: https://www.bing.com/ images/ search?view=detailV2&ccid=U%2b3idR8J&id=95DE83CCDA561926F70348AE89A62B98A25491BD&q=wave+diffraction+harbour&simid=608054060641944318&selectedIndex=7&qpvt=wave+diffraction+harbour&ajaxhist=0
Figure 7: taken from UK NQT Hub in Sensors and Metrology; Kai Bongs, University of Birmingham
Figure 8: ©AF archive/Alamy Stock Photo
Figure 9: taken from https://vcq.quantum.at/fileadmin/Publications/2007-17.pdf
Week 4
Figure 1 © Jaguar/Alamy Stock Photo
Video 3 Activity 2 ©Science at NASA https://science.nasa.gov/
Week 5
Figure 1: taken from http://www.stepbystep.com/ difference-between-unicellular-and-multicellular-88073/
Figure 4: taken from http://www.mymicrogravity.com/ platforms#rpm
Figure 7: ©PHL@UBR Arecibo (phl.upr.edu) July 2018 : https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc-sa/ 3.0/
Week 6
Figure 1: ©Red Bull adapted from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19943590 https://www.redbull.com/ gb-en/
Figure 2: taken from: http://www.newtonsapple.org.uk/ wp-content/ uploads/ 2013/ 08/ Baumgartner-skydiving-spreadeagled-at-a-constant-speed.jpg
Figure 3: taken from: http://www.newtonsapple.org.uk/ wp-content/ uploads/ 2013/ 08/ Baumgartner-about-to-land-safely.jpg
Figure 5: taken from: New Scientist; Technology: Japanese space research comes down to Earth By MICHAEL CROSS in TOKYO
Video 1: Felix Baumgartner’s world record jump, Red Bull
Video 3: Apollo 15 mission experiment on the Moon; ©NASA; uploaded by 20th Century Time Machine
Week 7
Figure 1: ©NASA/OMB
Figure 2: © NASA; The Vision for Space Exploration February 2004
Figure 3: ©National Priorities Project: https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc/ 3.0/
Figure 4: ©Comet image ESA; all other images NASA; data from NASA and ESA; All figures in 2015$.
Video 1: The Rosetta mission; Royal Observatory Greenwich
Week 8
Figure 1: © NASA
Figure 2: © BBC; Astronauts: Do You Have What It Takes? BBC 2
Figure 3: © NASA; taken from http://www.bbc.co.uk/ guides/ zyfb9qt#zcc87hv
Figure 4: taken from; ‘An illustrated guide to Spacex’s launch vehicle reusability plans’ © John Gardi & Jon Ross
Figure 5: taken from; ‘An illustrated guide to Spacex’s launch vehicle reusability plans’ © John Gardi & Jon Ross
Video 2: NASA astronauts in g-force training; © NASA; produced by James Lacey Media Productions
Video 3: The Future of Human Space Exploration; © NASA
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