Rocket into space with MIT professor and astronaut Jeff Hoffman HD

Spaceflight is exciting, and you don’t have to be a “Rocket Scientist” to share in the excitement! 16.00x makes the basics of spaceflight accessible to everyone. Join MIT Professor Jeffrey Hoffman, a former NASA astronaut who made five spaceflights and was the first astronaut to log 1000 hours on the Space Shuttle, as he teaches you the core principles behind space travel and exploration in his first online course: Introduction to Aerospace Engineering: Astronautics and Human Spaceflight. Free online courses from MIT: https://www.edx.org/school/mitx Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT Additional footage courtesy of MITx, New Horizons and NASA Music sampled from "What Is Whispered In Your Ear Proclaim It From The Rooftops" by James Joshua Otto http://freemusicarchive.org/music/James_Joshua_Otto/And_then_the_mountains_moved/What_Is_Whispered_In_Your_Ear_Proclaim_It_From_The_Rooftops http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/