{"id":1359,"date":"2013-03-26T01:43:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T01:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2013-03-26T01:43:55","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T01:43:55","slug":"british-interplanetary-society-history-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1359","title":{"rendered":"British Interplanetary Society history – part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the second installment of Kelvin Long’s historical review of the British Interplanetary Society<\/a>, one of the oldest space advocacy organizations (see Part 1 here<\/a>) : The British Interplanetary Society at 80 Years: Part II – Centauri Dreams<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He focused on Project Daedalus<\/a>, a study sponsored by the BIS in the 1970s that attempted to design a realistic interstellar transport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. He focused on Project Daedalus, a study sponsored by the BIS in the 1970s that attempted … Continue reading British Interplanetary Society history – part 2<\/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-1359","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-lV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1292,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1292","url_meta":{"origin":1359,"position":0},"title":"A brief history of the British Interplanetary Society","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 22, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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