{"id":1292,"date":"2013-03-22T17:37:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T17:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2013-03-22T17:37:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T17:37:52","slug":"a-brief-history-of-the-british-interplanetary-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1292","title":{"rendered":"A brief history of the British Interplanetary Society"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kelvin Long provides a historical review of the British Interplanetary Society<\/a>, one of the oldest space advocacy organizations: The British Interplanetary Society at 80 Years – Centauri Dreams<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He discusses some of the early technical studies put forth by members of the BIS including the BIS Moonship<\/em> in 1939, the Megaroc<\/em> man-carrying rocket proposal in 1946, and the Lunar Space-Suit<\/em> in 1949.<\/p>\n

When discussing the BIS, I always like to point out that the prestigious American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)<\/a> can be traced back to the American Interplanetary Society<\/em>. (See AIAA History<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kelvin Long provides a historical review of the British Interplanetary Society, one of the oldest space advocacy organizations: The British Interplanetary Society at 80 Years – Centauri Dreams. He discusses some of the early technical studies put forth by members of the BIS including the BIS Moonship in 1939, the Megaroc man-carrying rocket proposal in … Continue reading A brief history of the British Interplanetary Society<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-kQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1359,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1359","url_meta":{"origin":1292,"position":0},"title":"British Interplanetary Society history – part 2","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is the second installment of Kelvin Long's historical review of the British Interplanetary Society, one of the oldest space advocacy organizations (see Part 1 here) : The British Interplanetary Society at 80 Years: Part II - Centauri Dreams. 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