Related: I saw that Canadian astronaut, Chris Hadfield, is offering a class on "Space Exploration" on the Master Class site. I haven't used MC before, so I cannot attest to the quality of the offering, but it seems interesting.<p>> <i>MC Course Site</i>: <a href="https://www.masterclass.com/classes/chris-hadfield-teaches-space-exploration" rel="nofollow">https://www.masterclass.com/classes/chris-hadfield-teaches-s...</a><p>> <i>Chris Hadfield's 'Space Oddity' music video from ISS</i>: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo</a>
A few years back I attended a course on spacecraft operations at ESA. The instructor had a quite inspiring goal for operations: maximizing mission output.<p>He kind of touches upon it in the talk with the TV-SAt 1 situation where operations really got to be creative and find <i>some</i> solution to learn about the problem. Other great examples of this mindset are the quite successful Mars rovers, the Voyager spacecrafts and the Huygens probe.
The guy is able to very concisely describe what are very complicated concepts... which is even more impressive considering that english probably isn't his first language.