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Spinoff story
Astronauts Instruct Newcomers on Peculiarities of Spaceflight
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
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Overview
The growing numbers of engineers, managers, and others in the space industry generally do not graduate with much knowledge of the unique challenges posed by space travel. The International Flight Test Institute in Mojave, California, aims to fill that knowledge gap with crash courses in spaceflight taught in part by two former astronauts. Largely based on the training they received at Johnson Space Center, the curriculum includes everything from orbital mechanics to space law.