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Topic: British Interplanetary Society's Spaceflight
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garymilgrom
Member Posts: 1966
From: Atlanta, GA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 11-29-2012 11:18 AM
   
Selecting the PDF option to purchase this magazine changes the price to a thousand pounds! What's up with that? |
garymilgrom
Member Posts: 1966
From: Atlanta, GA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 11-30-2012 10:07 AM
Any BIS members have an answer to this? I'd really like to buy the issue! Thanks. |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 11-30-2012 11:09 AM
First of all check if you already paid your membership for 2013 and have chosen for the digital issues (Membership = hard copies or [not "and"] .pdf digital issues). You need to login on the BIS-space.com website (lower right of the webpage) with your membership credentials.Put the .pdf issue in your basket, fill the form and go to checkout... BIS HQ just confirmed it's not a problem, it's so that people cannot buy the latest edition until it has hit the doorsteps... (Have been promoting the BIS for more than a decade on collectSPACE.com and thank Robert Pearlman for the occasion!) |
ed zigoy
Member Posts: 31
From: Portland,OR,USA
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 01-08-2013 12:50 PM
In the past Spaceflight used to carry lots of letters from its readers. Now at most it’s maybe one or two per single page. Guess the Editors are not interested in hearing from anyone, since they didn’t bother carrying it in the January 2013 issue. Or maybe this “regular feature” was just plain dropped? |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 01-09-2013 09:35 AM
Well the Spaceflight index wasn't printed in the December 2012 issue in order to provide 4 extra pages for "Society News".There might be extra space for "E-mails & Letters" in order to print some tributes to the late Sir Patrick Moore (1923-2012) in the March issue. The February 2012 is a great issue dedicated to commercial spaceflight (XCOR, DreamChaser, Virgin Galactic,...). I guess most readers prefer a themed issue. |
ed zigoy
Member Posts: 31
From: Portland,OR,USA
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 01-09-2013 11:03 AM
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Originally posted by Philip:
Well the Spaceflight index wasn't printed in the December 2012 issue...
Another year's index available as a .pdf? And if so where are they available for the reader to see?What’s with the recycling of Spaceflight covers, December 2010 and February 2013 look the same!!! No other photos of commercial spacecraft found? One good move in Spaceflight, glad to see the ‘Book Reviews’ page is now ‘Off the Shelf’ with more media covered. |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 01-10-2013 09:18 AM
I hope BIS will make the complete Spaceflight index available for its 80th Birthday year. |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 02-11-2013 07:59 AM
Congrats to the Spaceflight editor as the March 2013 is a superb issue with lots of Space Art by David Hardy and Lynette Cook. |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 03-11-2013 04:14 PM
The April 2013 issue of Spaceflight is a Mars special.  Meanwhile, Spaceflight indexes compiled by Philip Corneille and Ben Jones are available online. |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 05-04-2013 11:30 AM
June 2013 issue has a 12-pages Apollo-Skylab special |
Tykeanaut
Member Posts: 2212
From: Worcestershire, England, UK.
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 06-14-2013 01:10 PM
I live quite close to Leamington Spa, so was disappointed to read in the latest edition about the recent BIS event there which I knew nothing about.I didn't see it advertised in a previous issue of Spaceflight? |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 07-17-2013 06:57 AM
Log in on the BIS website with your member credentials to see all the hidden extras... |
Tykeanaut
Member Posts: 2212
From: Worcestershire, England, UK.
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 07-17-2013 08:07 AM
Was the event members only then? |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3118
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 07-17-2013 05:12 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Philip:
Log in on the BIS website with your member credentials to see all the hidden extras...
Member credentials? Don't tell me I've been allocated one of those ridiculous numbers that's larger than the number of atoms in the universe.... |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 08-09-2013 06:52 AM
Launch vehicle themed September issue of BIS Spaceflight magazine. |
Tykeanaut
Member Posts: 2212
From: Worcestershire, England, UK.
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 08-09-2013 01:16 PM
I notice the letters page is particularly short or sometimes not there. Is that because no one is corresponding or an editing decision I wonder? |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 08-15-2013 08:01 AM
I'm not the spokesman for BIS. |
Tykeanaut
Member Posts: 2212
From: Worcestershire, England, UK.
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 08-15-2013 10:12 AM
It was only a rhetorical comment. |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 08-24-2013 08:49 AM
Of course, so was mine.  Curious to see if Spaceflight magazine will cover the Gaia and WISE astronomy space missions... |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 10-06-2013 03:02 AM
All the interesting stuff (WISE, Voyager) is on the BIS website, magazine = British club, especially nowadays with 80th birthday.Also BIS' editor of Odyssey magazine quit... |
dom
Member Posts: 855
From:
Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 10-06-2013 05:44 AM
What, Mark Stewart's gone from Odyssey  Can't see that announcement on the BIS website. Please post a link... |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 10-11-2013 11:04 AM
It was announced by the BIS president in a letter to all BIS members and fellows... just sent you an email. |
Tykeanaut
Member Posts: 2212
From: Worcestershire, England, UK.
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 10-16-2013 07:42 AM
Good review of the shuttle Atlantis exhibition in Florida by our very own Rick (Mulheirn) in the latest issue. |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 10-30-2013 03:11 AM
Indeed recent news and longer in-depth articles (genre Dwayne Day) is what most members like to see in our favorite Spaceflight magazine... |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 10-30-2013 03:29 AM
Just wanted to ask if there's some interest in getting the complete Spaceflight magazine package published between 1956 and 2013? Similar as was done with Sky & Telescope magazine between 1941 and 2010...I would certainly be interested to browse old Spaceflight magazines in PDF on a computer or tablet. |
hoorenz
Member Posts: 1031
From: The Netherlands
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted 10-30-2013 03:38 AM
Same answer as 1,5 years ago: I would be very much interested in the older issues on a dvd. |
heng44
Member Posts: 3386
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 10-30-2013 03:54 AM
Count me in! |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 10-30-2013 04:04 AM
Indeed I would like a DVD-set offered in the BIS online shop for around maximum Euro 100.00 for six decades of Spaceflight magazine! |
Danny VH
Member Posts: 14
From: Waasmunster, Belgium
Registered: Jul 2013
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posted 10-31-2013 02:37 AM
Very nice initiative… Count me in too!
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johntosullivan
Member Posts: 162
From: Cork, Cork, Ireland
Registered: Oct 2005
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posted 10-31-2013 06:02 AM
Count me in. |
ed zigoy
Member Posts: 31
From: Portland,OR,USA
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 10-31-2013 11:40 AM
quote:
Originally posted by hoorenz:
Same answer as 1,5 years ago: I would be very much interested in the older issues on a dvd.
See the above June 2012 discussion about scanning. |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 10-31-2013 03:46 PM
Recollections of the BIS with the late Sir Patrick Moore, the first editor of BIS Spaceflight magazine in 1956. |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 11-10-2013 02:36 PM
Amazingly the December issue was available as an online purchase before members got it in their e-mail |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 11-13-2013 09:18 AM
Wanted at BIS: Odyssey Team of contributors. |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 04-11-2014 05:42 AM
May 2015 issue of Spaceflight is a hit on Twitter thanks to Asteroids special... Dwayne Day dug up some MIT archives with a proposal to use Saturn V rockets to nuke a rogue asteroid. |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 08-28-2014 04:51 AM
Coming up: Secrets unveiled The October issue of Spaceflight will unravel a dark and deeply held secret from the tense years of the Cold War when both sides of the ideological divide tried to spy on each other’s satellites – from platforms in space! Now an accepted practice, back in the closing months just before the first manned landing on the Moon, this was a very dangerous game. Dwayne Day, that doyen of dark secrets from a bygone era tells all, as he explains how a mistaken interpretation could easily have raised the stakes in the one-upmanship of political bounce. |
ed zigoy
Member Posts: 31
From: Portland,OR,USA
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 09-02-2014 11:00 AM
Kudos to Geoff Richards and all of the past compilers/editors on reaching the 500th Satellite Digest in the September issue. |
Tykeanaut
Member Posts: 2212
From: Worcestershire, England, UK.
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 09-19-2014 03:15 AM
Just when you think it's safe to purchase a copy of Spaceflight that chap Mulheirn is in there again. Seriously though Rick, good article by you about Gene Cernan in the new October issue. |
Rick Mulheirn
Member Posts: 4167
From: England
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 09-19-2014 06:27 AM
Aw shucks!  |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 06-22-2015 07:34 AM
Enjoy the current Space Art themed issue of Spaceflight, which inspired some writers for articles in the upcoming Oct/Nov issue. |
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