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Patrick’s Picnic
Posted on May 31, 2012 | No CommentsJoin us at Sir Patrick Moore's home in West Sussex for a relaxed and picnic in Patrick Moore's garden. This is a great social and networking event where you can meet up with BIS friends and colleagues. -
Olaf Stapledon: the first interplanetary man
Posted on May 30, 2012 | No CommentsFor H.G. Wells’s eponymous Time Traveller, it would have been the shortest of journeys, a mere nudge of his incredible machine’s “starting lever.2” -
Once in a lifetime event
Posted on May 30, 2012 | No CommentsMany astronomers and members of the public in Britain will be getting up early on the 6 of June, so they can see the final Transit of Venus of the 21st century -
Russian reaction…
Posted on May 29, 2012 | No CommentsAll eyes are on the outstanding performance of SpaceX in getting its Dragon capsule to the ISS. But the country most likely to suffer repercussions is Russia. -
Apollo Symposium
Posted on May 29, 2012 | No CommentsTo mark the 40th anniversary of the last Apollo Moon landing, Spaceflight is celebrating the contribution made by British scientists and engineers. -
The Journey Begins
Posted on May 28, 2012 | No CommentsA Symposium is to be held in Houston, to start collecting information and data supporting the 100YSS™ initiative building on the BIS Icarus studies -
Gravitational Lensing: Revealing the Dark Side of the Universe
Posted on May 28, 2012 | No CommentsWe live in a Universe in which most of the matter appears to be in a strange and nearly undetectable form. -
BIS Heads for the Stars
Posted on May 27, 2012 | No CommentsOriginating in the BIS, the Icarus project has been the underpinning technical element in the winning bid for the 100 Year Starship Study -
BIS Odyssey Newsletter: Issue 16
Posted on May 26, 2012 | No CommentsIn this addition of Odyssey are two distinguished artists and personal friends: the hugely gifted Adrian Mann, and the visionary David A. Hardy. -
SpaceX Makes History
Posted on May 25, 2012 | No CommentsSpace Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) made history when its Dragon spacecraft became the first commercial vehicle to attach to the International Space Station




















