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Reasons to Join the BIS With the growing market in private spaceflight, and space tourism, now is an ideal time…
“In half a century, space exploration has achieved goals that matched the dreams and speculations of us BIS space cadets…
Space for Hire – BIS Meeting & Conference Rooms for Hire Creating the right impression is key in today’s competitive…
BIS Members are invited to visit the site to see some of the world’s largest communications satellites and most sophisticated science spacecraft being built…
The talk will encompass our local celestial neighbourhood, the Solar System, shedding light on the planets….
Chris Lintott (co-presenter on The Sky at Night) will talk on Attitudes to Human Spaceflight
7 December at the Society’s HQ.
The Space Shuttle is the most complicated machine designed and built by human beings. An extraordinary….
Williams Olaf Stapledon was born in May 1886. A philosopher by Doctoral training, his PhD thesis was the basis of one of his first books on A Modern Theory of Ethics.
Along with lunar soil and rock samples, arguably one of the most important legacies of the Apollo program was that of the photographs brought back by the astronauts. The imagery was instrumental….
Following on from two previous events organised by the British Interplanetary Society History Committee, a third event is to be held at the Royal Air Force Museum facilities at Cosford, Shifnal, Shropshire.
On May 3 1974 Carl Sagan gave an evening talk on Extraterrestrial Intelligence….
A huge thank you to all those members who took the time to complete and return the recent paper-based BIS…
Here’s your chance to own a first edition SKYLON desktop model, exclusive to the British Interplanetary Society. These beautifully made…
On Sale Now – This is a re-publication of the British Interplanetary Society (BIS) Project Daedalus papers, first published in 1978. It also contains one of the first technical papers on interstellar travel by Les Shepherd published in 1952 as well as a post-Project Daedalus review paper by Alan Bond and Tony Martin published in 1986. The foreword is written by the current BIS President Bob Parkinson, also a member of the original Project Daedalus Study Group.