🌌 BIS Space Rendezvous – TODAY 📅 Thursday 10 July 2025 🕖 19:00–20:30 BST 📍 Online via Zoom Join us for our Monthly Online Social, where space enthusiasts from around the world come together to connect and share ideas.🚀✨😊👍🏻 🔗 Free and open to all – register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The British Interplanetary Society’s West Midlands Branch is exhibiting at 'SmallSpace 12' on 13th July at Hanslope Village Hall, Newport, Bucks, MK19 7NZ For more information please see the Smallspace 12 event website: hamex.co.uk/smallspace/smallspace%2012/smallspace%2012.html

🚀 British Interplanetary Society (BIS) PUBLICATION August edition of our #SpaceFlight #Magazine is out now! BIS Members can access their FREE digital copy via the Members Area and copies are available to buy at bis-space.com/shop or become a member: bis-space.com/membership

Galactic Patrol by Chris Foss. One of my favourite bits of space art since I was a young teenager.

Ready to lift-off day 1 at #SalonDuBourget? 🚀 Don't forget to join us live for the [email protected] press conference beginning at 14:00 BST/15:00 CEST on esawebtv.esa.int For ESA’s full programme at the #ParisAirShow click here ➡️ www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA...

🚀 Call for Abstracts – Reinventing Space Conference 2025 🌍 📅 Deadline: MIDNIGHT, TODAY 16 June 2025 💡 Abstracts (max. 500 words) to: [email protected]. 👉 Please include “RISpace 2025” in your subject line + specify your format (talk, paper, panel, or demo). www.bis-space.com #ReinventingSpace

🚀 BIS PUBLICATION July edition of our #SpaceFlight #Magazine is out now. BIS Members can access their FREE digital copy via the Members Area and copies are available to buy at bis-space.com/shop or become a member: bis-space.com/membership Also available at some @WHSmith /#TGJones stores.

The overlap of fact and fiction: one of “Analog’s” famous magazine covers echoes "Project Daedalus” – a 1970s study by the British Interplanetary Society to design a plausible un-crewed interstellar probe...read in full here: tinyurl.com/486xjfd5 #BritishInterplanetarySociety #Odyssey

Find out more at: www.jodrellbank.net/events/a-sti...

Don't forget you can see our Bicentennial Quilts on display together for the first time this Bank Holiday weekend! They are part of Jodrell Bank's new summer exhibition 'A Stitch in Space Time', which also features pieces from innovative spacewear and textiles artist, Anurita Chandola. ⤵️

Remembering the ongoing cultural impact of “2001: A Space Odyssey” on the birthday of Keir Dullea, who got to say one of the most famous (and enigmatic) lines in the history of the cinema: “My, god! It’s full of stars!” Still wondering what it really meant. #KeirDullea #Odyssey #BIS

A big THANK YOU 🙏 to everybody who has either checked out or bought Málverk on Bandcamp. This release really epitomises my sound, style and influences and it's one I'm really proud of - your support means a lot! thelightdreams.bandcamp.com/album/m-lverk

Pathfinder Art #1: Chesley Bonestell’s art embodies the spirit of the BIS motto - “From imagination to reality.” It might be termed “pathfinder art” pointing the way to worlds which human beings might one day explore, courtesy of machines they might one day build. @artistburns.bsky.social

Nikolay Kolchitsky, Travel to distant worlds, Jupiter from Europa.

Art by David Hardy for the German reprint of Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth (1981)

I will always love the iconic Shuttle. Here’s one I painted in acrylics on stretched canvas. #NASA #aerospace #Shuttle

📷 This week's @esaearth.esa.int #EarthFromSpace is a #Copernicus Sentinel-3 visible image of a thick plume of orange dust from the Sahara Desert over approximately 150 000 sq km of the eastern Atlantic Ocean on 7 May 2025🧪🌍 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

The latest issue of "Space Chronicle" – one of four amazing publications available from the British Interplanetary Society – features tributes to the late Bill Anders, the Apollo astronaut who took the famous “Earthrise” photo. @stevesalmon.bsky.social @artistburns.bsky.social #BIS www.bis-space.com

Want to know more about the history of a British think-tank that in many ways beat NASA to the moon with designs for lunar spacecraft and spacesuits? Don’t miss your chance to get the updated story. tinyurl.com/yxrhyzp8 @stevesalmon.bsky.social @artistburns.bsky.social #BritishInterplanetarySociety

🚀 Call for Abstracts – Reinventing Space Conference 2025 🌍 📅 Deadline: 24.00, 16 June 2025. ‘The Rapidly Changing Context of Global Space’. Max. 500 words to: [email protected] 👉 Please include "RISpace 2025" in the subject line + specify format (talk/paper/panel/demo). www.BIS-space.com

📷 This was our #WeekInImages 26-30 May 2025 👇 🔗 www.esa.int/About_Us/Wee...

📢 Applications to our Junior Professional Programme are now open! 🌍✨ Do you have two to three years of professional experience and a Master’s degree? 🎓 Are you passionate about space and want to build a long-term career in the European space sector?🚀 Apply today 👉 www.esa.int/About_Us/Car...

🚀 Join us this tomorrow for a special talk “FROM SHUTTLE TO VEGA: 30 Years of Italian Space Missions” by Dr Enrico Flamini, the Italian Space Agency's former Chief Scientist! 📅 Thursday 15 May ⏰ 7:00-9:00 PM (GMT) 📍 BIS HQ & online 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/5642ttk3

🚀 Join the British Interplanetary Society this Thursday for a special talk “FROM SHUTTLE TO VEGA: 30 Years of Italian Space Missions” by Dr Enrico Flamini, the Italian Space Agency’s former Chief Scientist! 📅 Thursday 15 May ⏰ 7:00-9:00 PM (GMT) 📍 BIS HQ & online 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/5642ttk3

🚀 Join the British Interplanetary Society this Thursday for a special talk “FROM SHUTTLE TO VEGA: 30 Years of Italian Space Missions” by Dr Enrico Flamini, the Italian Space Agency’s former Chief Scientist! 📅 Thursday 15 May ⏰ 7:00-9:00 PM (GMT) 📍 BIS HQ & online 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/5642ttk3

🔭🚀 We will be present at the 55th edition of International Paris Air Show, taking place on 16-22 June at Le Bourget airport. Here we celebrate 50 years of advancing space for Europe, as well as highlighting our vision for the future, ESA’s Strategy 2040. Find out more ➡️ esa.int/About_Us/Exh...

🚀 Take a virtual leap inside Europe’s #MoonOnEarth 🥽🌖 At the @esa.int – @dlr-en.bsky.social LUNA facility, @astromatthias.bsky.social is testing VR tech for training under lunar extremes — blinding light, deep shadows, lunar dust and even virtual rockets! 🧑‍🚀🔁🌕 🔗 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

Again, a fusion-powered interplanetary spacecraft would be good for Interstellar precursor trips, and the technology could be developed for true Interstellar missions.

🚀 Join us this evening for the official launch of ‘Interplanetary – The History of the British Interplanetary Society’ with Prof. Bob Parkinson, BIS Past President. 📆Tuesday 15 April 2025 ⏲️19.00 BST 📍BIS HQ, London or Online via Zoom 🎟️Register: tinyurl.com/24vzcny8

"From imagination to reality..." In the latest SpaceFlight magazine: Sunbird rises: British nuclear propulsion firm Pulsar Fusion unveiled its interplanetary transfer vehicle propelled by fusion power. @cliftop.bsky.social @stevesalmon.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3fyxm4ym #BritishInterplanetarySociety

"SpaceFlight" magazine: May issue out now: while talk of Mars and Musk’s Starship steals the limelight it is landers like Blue Ghost, and future larger versions, that will deliver the supplies, equipment and habitat for Moon bases. @cliftop.bsky.social @stevesalmon.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3fyxm4ym

If ever a man understood the British Interplanetary Society's motto “From imagination to reality” it was surely Gerry Anderson, BOTD 1929. A man “who made childhood a wonderful place to be.” #gerryanderson @stevesalmon.bsky.social @artistburns.bsky.social @imjamieanderson.bsky.social

Read about the remarkable history of the British Interplanetary Society as updated by former President Bob Parkinson. Available here tinyurl.com/bdd8vpdv or you can browse a copy in the BIS library. #ESRIN #ScienziatiNati #Space #STEM #Outreach #ESA @artistburns.bsky.social #UKSEDS #spaceflight

Coming soon in the May issue of Odyssey magazine we ask: what makes good science fiction, and what happened to the Space Age and the future it once promised? Where are the trips to the Moon and the flying cars? Join www.bis-space.com for your copy. #Odyssey #BIS_Odyssey #Space #BIS #history

Arthur and Isaac: Two titans of science fiction greet each other to discuss space odysseys/galactic empires. Old friends and connoisseurs of speculative possibilities. One of the rare photos contained in the BIS Arthur C. Clarke archives. More in the May issue of Odyssey out soon. #IsaacAsimov

The BIS @BIS_spaceflight spacesuit #3 “From imagination to reality” - for those who may wish to see the suit, it is on display at the UK National Space Centre: tinyurl.com/n955trrc #Odyssey #BIS_Odyssey #Space #BIS #history @bsfa.bsky.social #space #astronaut #astronomy

The BIS spacesuit #2 “From imagination to reality” - it may look more like a Star Wars costume now but the British Interplanetary Society's lunar suit prefigured what the Apollo astronauts would eventually wear. #Odyssey #BIS_Odyssey #Space #BIS #history @bsfa.bsky.social #space #astronaut

UK National Space Centre www.spacecentre.co.uk/collections/...

In #JANUARY 1956 👇🧵 A hydroponic lunar greenhouse proposed by J. W. E. H. Sholto Douglas in “Farming on the Moon”, *Journal of the British Interplanetary Society*, Vol. 15, No. 1, January 1956, pp. 17-28. #illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #JWEHSholtoDouglas

The British Interplanetary Society has relaunched its cultural magazine, Odyssey. Contact me if you'd like a complimentary copy of the first two issues. #BIS #BritishInterPlanetarySociety #spacetravel #space #culture #Odyssey #sciencefiction #magazine

The oldest spaceflight advance planning study I write about on my blog No Shortage of Dreams: a British interplanetary Society study of a lunar space suit. The BIS reprinted my post in their SPACE CHRONICLE publication a couple of years ago. 🛰️🔭🧪🚀🪐🌏👩‍🚀🌌 spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2020/01/moon...

The BIS spacesuit #1 “From imagination to reality” - the first serious scientific study into a lunar spacesuit was done by British Interplanetary Society members Harry Ross and Ralph Smith in the 1940s. #Odyssey #BIS_Odyssey #Space #BIS #history @bsfa.bsky.social #space #astronaut #astronomy

No Shortage of Dreams - spaceflight planning history "Electromagnetic Launching as a Major Contribution to Space-Flight (1950)" spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2020/11/elec... #Moon #histSTM #histtech #STS An important British Interplanetary Society paper by Arthur C. Clarke.

Fabrizio Bernardini & Davide Palombi from British Interplanetary Society virtually present "General Purpose Spacecraft Simulator – an educational and research tool" at the 2025 Flight Software Workshop!