The British Interplanetary Society

The Gaia Spacecraft, due for launch in 2013 is a cornerstone ESA Astronomy mission designed to map 1 billion objects within our Galaxy.

If R is for Rocket, as Ray Bradbury suggested in the title of his 1962 collection of short stories, then “S” must surely be for Skylon

Piers Bizony’s visually exciting lecture will look at the making of ’2001′ and put its design and technology in context, more than forty years after the film’s first release.

Latest news in understanding the unification of the weak and electromagnetic forces and the origin of mass at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN

Was science fiction influential in Britain and how did the pioneers of the British Interplanetary Society capitalize on it?

First Orbit, the hit Internet film that re-creates the story of Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering spaceflight, to receive theatrical London screenings in 30 languages