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The people of Caltech's Jet Propulsion

Laboratory create, manage, and operate
NASA projects of exploration throughout
our solar system and beyond.

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Basics of Space Flight is a tutorial
designed primarily to help
operations people identify the
range of concepts associated
with deep space missions, and
grasp the relationships among
them. It also enjoys popularity
with college and high-school
students and faculty, and people
everywhere who are interested in
interplanetary space flight.

This website attempts to offer a

broad scope, but limited depth, as
a robust framework to
accommodate further training or
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investigation. Many other
resources are available for
delving into each of the topics
related here; indeed, any one of
them can involve a lifelong career
of specialization.
This module's purpose is met if
the participant learns the scope
of concepts that apply to
interplanetary space exploration,
and how the relationships among
all of them work.

Links to external sites provide

further depth to many topics.
There are interactive quizzes to
let you check your own progress.
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No records are kept, nor does
Caltech offer academic credit for
this training.

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