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	British Interplanetary Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The BIS was preceded by the American Interplanetary Society (founded 1930), the German VfR, and Soviet rocket research groups, but unlike these it never became absorbed into a national industry.
		However early in 1936, the Society discovered this ambition was thwarted by the Explosives Act of 1875, which prevented any private testing of liquid-fuel rockets in the United Kingdom.
		The science writer Arthur C. Clarke is a well-known former Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Interplanetary_Society (409 words)

	British Interplanetary Society - About Us, London, UK
		The British Interplanetary Society (BIS) was founded in 1933, and is the world’s longest established organization devoted solely to supporting and promoting the exploration of space and astronautics.
		The Society was founded in 1933 by a group of space flight enthusiasts who dreamed of using rocket propulsion to fly to the Moon and the planets.
		The word “Interplanetary” in the Society’s title was not intended to limit attention only to those nearby worlds that circle our Sun, but to cover space exploration activities in general – even in the most distant visions to conceive of travel across interstellar space.
	www.bis-spaceflight.com /AbouttheSociety.htm (705 words)

	BIS Lunar Lander
		Design of the British Interplanetary Society's BIS Spaceship began in 1937 and was published in January and July 1939.
		Available British rocket technology then consisting only of powder rockets, the booster consisted of 2,490 such rockets, which were shed as soon as they were exhausted.
		A paper read to the British Interplanetary Society by H. Ross described a manned lunar landing mission which would require a combination of the earth orbit and lunar orbit rendezvous techniques.
	www.astronautix.com /craft/bisander.htm (2358 words)

	Lovaura.com Space Memorabilia - Space Memorabilia.
		This postcard features the full scale engineering model of the first British satellite "Ariel 1" which is on public display at the Science Museum, London in the Exploration of Space gallery.
		The flight version was launched on the 26th April 1962 as a space explorer to carry out experiments devised by four British universities.
		Published monthly by the British Interplanetary Society it is available to members and selected newsagents worldwide.
	www.lovaura.com /misc_int.htm (735 words)

	The Architecture of Artificial-Gravity Environments for Long-Duration Space Habitation
		The general public regarded such pursuits with considerable skepticism: the study of interplanetary travel was so ridiculed that in 1934 the American Interplanetary Society changed its name to the American Rocket Society, and the British society considered a similar move [9].
		Thus, the space station was initially conceived as a construction site and fuel depot for interplanetary space ships; or as an observatory for studying the heavens and the Earth; or as a military outpost for waging war or enforcing peace.
		His first book, The Rocket into Interplanetary Space (Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen), was published in 1923 and "became the sole cornerstone of all later space travel ideas" [19].
	www.artificial-gravity.com /Dissertation/1_2.htm (3002 words)

	EARLY HISTORY - Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
		While he failed in his initial attempt to have this speculation published, it is characteristic of Goddard's penchant for secrecy that these calculations remained in his private notebooks, with Esnault-Pelterie being the first to publicly suggest the use of atomic energy for rocketry.
		Members of the British Interplanetary Society were skeptical of the long-term promise of chemical propellants, and from the outset were proponents of nuclear propulsion:
		Eric Burgess, a Fellow of the Society, also concluded that nuclear propulsion would be essential for interplanetary travel, and produced a surprisingly modern looking design for such a vehicle.
	www.fas.org /nuke/space/c02early.htm (2526 words)

	Social History :Space Clubs and Societies
		Numerous other rocket societies also emerged in the 1930s, including the Group for the Study of Reaction Motion in Moscow (its Russian initials were GIRD and it is commonly referred to as MosGIRD) and another similarly named group in Leningrad (LenGIRD).
		The British Interplanetary Society was founded by a group of space enthusiasts in October 1933 in Liverpool.
		The Society's greatest triumph was persuading the Carter administration to refuse to sign a United Nations treaty that it felt would have discouraged the development of the Moon.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Social/space_clubs/SH19.htm (1542 words)

	British Interplanetary Society, Home Page, London, UK
		The British Interplanetary Society serves both space flight professionals and those with a general interest in space flight and astronautics.
		The Society has a worldwide membership, and is actively devoted to supporting forward looking policies and visionary thinking towards the advancement of space flight through its publications, symposia, meetings and other events.
		The Society also holds one and two-day Symposia on specialist space flight topics and has a regular programme of evening lectures on topics in astronautics.
	www.bis-spaceflight.com (180 words)

	HobbySpace - Space for Amateurs
		The British Interplanetary Society (BIS), for example, was founded in 1933 and included both laypersons and a number of scientists and engineers.
		The Mars Society began in 1998 and is led by the energetic Mars exploration proponent, Robert Zubrin.
		For example, the Mars Society’s Australian chapter has begun a project, along with several other Australian space and university groups, to build a satellite with an AMSAT bus to provide low cost store-and-forward communications among the Society’s various bases, such as the one on Devon Island, and their support facilities.
	www.hobbyspace.com /AAdmin/archive/Articles/SpaceForAmateurs.html (2911 words)

	British Interplanetary Society
		Clive Simpson is the editor of the London-based Society's monthly Spaceflight magazine, a full-colour publication that is sold on subscription and in bookstalls throughout the world.
		It's unique mission to report on both the public face and the behind-the-scenes acitvities of the world's space powers, means it is a widely respected publcation throughout the industry.
		SimComm also provides support to the Society's website and other areas of publicity and the media.
	www.simcomm.co.uk /BIS.htm (92 words)

	Terraforming Bibiliography
		Fogg, Martyn J., "The Terraforming of Venus", Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 40, 551-564, 1987.
		Fogg, Martyn J., "Dynamics of a Terraformed Martian Biosphere", Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 46, 293-304, 1993.
		Zubrin, R., "The Economic Viability of Mars Colonization,"Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 48(10), 407-414, 1995.
	spot.colorado.edu /~marscase/cfm/terrabib.html (2950 words)

	Stride, Scot L.
		During his spare time, he has researched the use of existing COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) sensor, instrument, and computer technologies to design SETV experiments to attempt detection of robotic extraterrestrial probes that may have reached Earth.
		His article in the January 2001 issue of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society presented the rationale for the search strategy: it describes an autonomous robotic observatory platform for measuring anomalous observational phenomena.
		Together with Bruce Cornet he presented a paper on Solar System at SETICon03, the the third annual technical symposium of the SETI League, in 2003.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/S/Stride.html (869 words)

	The World Keeps Up With Arthur Clarke
		In the 1930s, he joined the British Interplanetary Society, which he chaired for two terms, and was active in SF fandom, where his self-promotional efforts earned him the nickname "Ego," which he keeps to this day.
		However, he is most familiar to global audiences as a futurist and advocate of technology and interplanetary exploration.
		He has received both the Order of the British Empire (promoted to Commander of the British Empire in 1998) and the Vidya Jyothi, the highest honor bestowed by the Sri Lankan government.
	www.space.com /peopleinterviews/arthur_clarke_991216.html (993 words)

	Journal of the British Interplanetary Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Journal of the British Interplanetary Society (JBIS) is a technical scientific journal, first published in 1934.
		The journal is edited and published in the United Kingdom by the British Interplanetary Society as a bi-monthly 72 page volume.
		In 1982, planetologist Christopher McKay was the first person to use the word terraforming in a published journal article in an article called "Terraforming Mars"..
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Journal_of_the_British_Interplanetary_Society (132 words)

	ASP: World Beat: The Heavens From a Watchtower
		My friend and I also attended meetings of the British Interplanetary Society and soaked up fledgling, rudimentary ideas of how space travel could be accomplished based on Wernher von Braun's infamous V2 rockets that pounded London towards the end of the War.
		Now, with time to spare, I joined the Victoria center of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada in 1989 and immediately plunged into buying a telescope and CCD equipment and built an observatory to house it all.
		Many a night we stood around in the freezing cold watching Jack's computer monitors as his telescope and CCD cameras captured images of faint fuzzy galaxies whose light started the long reach through space when dinosaurs trampled the undergrowth looking for tasty tidbits.
	www.astrosociety.org /pubs/mercury/0001/canada.html (1490 words)

	The Space Review: No sex (or any other human activities) in space, please: we're British!
		On Wednesday, April 28th, the Drudge Report connected to a story in the left-wing British paper, The Independent, titled “Sex, the final frontier: NASA acts to ensure that astronauts don’t follow their urges,” written by their technology editor, Charles Arthur.
		The long-standing decision of the British government not to participate in any human space activities, either with ESA or with NASA, has created a cramped and antagonistic perception of all space activities that led, in part, to the sadly underfunded Beagle Mars lander project.
		British leaders probably felt that they could not afford a space program and, that anyway, such a program would fail to bring any tangible benefits to their country.
	www.thespacereview.com /article/138/1 (1116 words)

	ITSF: Resources
		Fogg, Martyn J. "The Terraforming of Venus", Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 40 (1987), pp.
		Smith, A. "Transforming Venus by induced overturn", Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 42 (1989), pp.
		Morgan, Charles R. "Terraforming with Nanotechnology", Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 47 (1994), pp.
	www.itsf.org /resources/biblio.html (5565 words)

	Astrobiology: The Living Universe - Interstellar Travel
		Aside from the more conventional methods of looking for extra-terrestrial life by SETI and interplanetary craft, visionary scientists such as Freeman Dyson and Michio Kaku believe that we may be able to contact other civilizations by sending probes to them.
		The Daedalus is probably one of the most well-known concepts for an interstellar spacecraft, having been worked out to the finest detail by the British Interplanetary Society.
		Powered by nuclear fusion, Daedalus would have weighed 49,000 metric tonnes and required 27,000 tonnes of helium-3 for fuel (which is not available on Earth, but luckily is available elsewhere - in Jupiter's atmosphere).
	library.thinkquest.org /C003763/index.php?page=findlife03 (1240 words)

	The BIS Plan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The British Interplanetary Society, founded in 1933, was blessed with a fortuitous mixture of circumstances.
		And on the other, English law prohibited civilian rocket experiments, which probably saved several bank accounts and quite a few limbs.
		While the German Verein fur Raumschiffahrt and the American Rocket Society struggled with meager funds to build working rocket engines, the BIS was free to concentrate on more theoretical projects without picking shrapnel out of their hair.
	davidszondy.com /future/space/bis.htm (381 words)

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		Gesellschaft fur Luft und Raumfahrt, and the British Interplanetary Society.
		Interplanetary Society and a life member and Fellow of the International
		Schuetz is a Fellow of the British Interplanetary
	artemis.crosslink.net /~blackcat/extraCB/Page_2x.html (577 words)

	Heinlein Society Press Release 5-22-04
		This is the second year that The Heinlein Society has presented the award, with last year’s inaugural recipients being Virginia Heinlein and s-f author Michael Flynn.
		He was an early member of the British Interplanetary Society and served in the Royal Air Force during WWII.
		The Heinlein Society was founded by Virginia Heinlein on behalf of her husband, science fiction author Robert Anson Heinlein, to "pay forward" the legacy of Robert A. Heinlein to future generations of "Heinlein's Children."
	www.heinleinsociety.org /pressreleases/clarkeheinleinaward.html (524 words)

	Resources on Interstellar Probes - UFO Evidence
		If such is the case, then data in the form of observed probes, anomalous and alien as they may be, may possibly be reconciled with data gathered by earth-based observers.
		Of the thousands of millions of planets in the Galaxy likely to be situated similarly to the Earth in relation to their star, it is hard to dismiss the possibility that some have more advanced civilizations than ours.
		Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, Vol.33, pp.
	www.ufoevidence.org /documents/doc1377.htm (7177 words)

	TIME.com: Space, Here We Come -- Sep. 17, 1951 -- Page 1
		The British Interplanetary Society is a serious body, dominated not by comicstrip artists and space-opera fictioneers, but by eminent scientists.
		Last week in London it was host to the Second International Congress on Astronautics, attended by 63 scientist delegates from societies in ten countries.
		The official subject of the congress was the "earth-satellite vehicle," generally regarded as the first step toward true space navigation.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,815447,00.html (822 words)

	British Space Questions
		The oldest astronomical organisation in the UK is undoubtedly the Royal Astronomical Society.
		The Royal Astronomical Society is based in Piccadilly, London, was founded in 1820.
		The oldest space organisation in the UK is the British Interplanetary Society, based in Vauxhall, London, and founded in 1933.
	www.gbnet.net /~richard/test/questions.html (694 words)

	TIME.com: Passport to Space -- Dec. 10, 1951 -- Page 1
		One of the learned members of the British Interplanetary Society,† dedicated to the promotion of "interplanetary exploration and communication," decided that tomorrow's astronauts would need something besides a three-stage rocket ship before they swished into space.
		Plaintively the society announced that it was all a fake—they were not prepared to sell any round-trip tickets from Liverpool Airport to Mars.
		They had never even bought any shares in "British Milky Way Space Ships, Inc." Then the scientists went back to what they know how to handle: their telescopes, their rocket motors, and the antiseptic world of interstellar mathematics.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,815729,00.html (590 words)

	About FMARS - Dr. Robert Zubrin Crew Bio
		He is now president of his own space R&D company, Pioneer Astronautics, and he is a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society.
		Most recently, he founded the Mars Society; an international organization dedicated to furthering the exploration and settlement of Mars by both public and private means.
		Prior to his work in astronautics, Dr. Zubrin was employed in areas of thermonuclear fusion research, nuclear engineering, radiation protection, and as a high school science teacher.
	www.marssociety.org /arctic/2002/fmars01g.asp (116 words)

	Space, World Government, and "The End of History" - World Beyond Borders
		For although our voyage is to be outward, it is also to be inward, to the sources of all great acts, which are not out there, but in here, in us, where the Muses dwell [1].
		Fukuyama appears to believe that all progress in political philosophy ended with Hegel, apparently on the grounds that if history 'ends', the philosopher who predicted this must have reached the pinnacle of his subject (ref. 3, pp.311-12; inc. note 21).
		In his view this will mark arrival at the Hegelian 'end of history’ and I have argued that this is likely to be marked institutionally by the establishment of some kind of world government.
	zuserver2.star.ucl.ac.uk /~iac/jbis_culture.html (5476 words)

	Dr. Al Jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Accretion Shocks as Evidence for Extra-solar Planets, A. Jackson and R. Killen, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, Sept. 1981.
		Long term evolution of interplanetary dust particle: Precision orbit generation with the Everhart-Radau integrator, A.A. Jackson, CDCF Workshop, Mackinnon and Carey eds., LPI Report 88-05.
		Spatial Density Structure of Planet-Shepherded Interplanetary Dust, A. Jackson and Zook, H. A., 23rd Lunar and Planetary Sciences Meeting, March 1992.
	www.lpi.usra.edu /lpi/jackson/publications.shtml (1375 words)

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