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Sir Arthur Clarke Awards
From Imagination to Reality 2
Based on the success of the first such event last year – From Imagination To Reality 2, examines the commercialisation of space, borrowing it’s alternative title from a quote by that most famous of visionaries, ….
Latest News And Information From the British Interplanetary Society
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Weekly Video Upload – 24 May 2013
The latest videos in our members-only site have been added
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JBIS Vol 66 No.3-4
Welcome to the March/April 2013 issue of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society.
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The Lonely Universe, Part Three: Childhood’s End – Is It Just the Beginning?
Probably the most unlikely solution to the Fermi Paradox is the “Zoo Hypothesis” – aliens are deliberately keeping the human race in isolation and in ignorance of their existence.
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Opportunity on the move
NASA’s senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is driving to a new study area after a dramatic finish to 20 months on ‘Cape York’….
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A record drive for Opportunity
While Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt visited Earth’s moon for three days in December 1972, they drove their mission’s Lunar Roving Vehicle….
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Weekly Video Upload – 20 May 2013
This week we have concentrated on selected Shuttle flights in 1984-1985 with a series of post-flight briefings….
British Interplanetary Society Events
The Philosophy of the Starship – Call for Papers
This is a symposium on the philosophy of the Starship. At some point in the future, human kind will build robotic and human carrying vessels which will go beyond the solar system, out into interstellar space and onto visit worlds around other stars.
Unveiling the Secrets of the Universe
Professor Virdee will give an exclusive insight into the accelerator, the experiments and the most recent results from the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator.
Chinese/Soviet Forum
This is the Society's major Forum for hearing from and talking to the experts on the Chinese and Soviet Space Programmes.
Extraterrestrial Liberty: What is Freedom Beyond the Earth?
The question of how freedom will develop in space is one of the most compelling sociological questions in the long-term exploration and settlement of space.
Space Colonies – A Proposed BIS Study Project
How can space exploration help the Earth? In the late 1970, studies led by Gerard O’Neil proposed the construction of large space colonies, to be sited at lunar distance at the L4 and L5 points.
In Space
no oneEVERYONE can hear you screamThis talk will focus on medical and psychological issues during long duration exploration class missions (e.g. Mars), drawing on my experience in Antarctica where i spent 13 months as the European Space Agency's Human Spaceflight Research MD.
UK Space Conference 2013
The 2013 UK Space Conference, which takes place in July over two days, will focus on realising the UK's ambitions in space....
Sampling the Mysteries of Space by Sample Return of Comets and Asteroids
Comets and asteroids act as time travel capsules, having captured and preserved the earliest Solar System....
Starship Congress 2013
The Icarus Interstellar Starship Congress aims to bring together the interstellar community to foster discussion and generate tangible action.
68th Annual General Meeting
The 68th Annual General Meeting of the Society will be held on Saturday 7 September 2012 at 1 pm.
JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE): The First Large ESA Cosmic Vision Mission
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission selected by ESA as the first large mission within the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 plan,....
From Imagination to Reality 2
Based on the success of the first such event last year - From Imagination To Reality 2, examines the commercialisation of space, borrowing it’s alternative title from a quote by that most famous of visionaries, ....
64th International Astronautical Congress
On behalf of the Local Organizing Committee, I’m honored to invite you to participate in the 64th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), which will take place from 23-27 September 2013 in Beijing, China. After the 47th IAC in 1996, Chinese Society of Astronautics is privileged to host IAC for the second time in Beijing.
Further News And Information From The British Interplanetary Society
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Brit Selected for ISS Mission
Major Tim Peake is to fly a five-month mission to the ISS in 2015.
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The Lonely Universe, Part Two: Is There Anybody There?
One solution suggested for the Fermi Paradox (if the universe is teeming with life, where is everyone?) is that any sufficiently advanced alien civilization would live in a Dyson Sphere.
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End to end test – success!
Last week’s KickSat meeting at the BIS quickly achieved success
