===== ASTRONAUTICAL EVOLUTION =====

2006:

• Issue 15, 4 December 2006
  1. Breaking news: Britain looks at a flight to the Moon
  2. Reminder: Don’t forget to vote for the Arthurs
• Issue 14, 1 December 2006
  1. News: Writing letters to the editor pays off!
  2. UK in space: Forthcoming polemic in Spaceflight magazine
  3. UK in space: To the editor of The Telegraph, by Malcolm Smith FBIS
  4. The UFO debate: What you see depends on where you stand, not where you look, by Malcolm Smith FBIS
  5. The UFO debate: What IS it with the UFO phenomenon?
• Issue 13, 1 November 2006
  1. Question: Has a new Moon race begun?
  2. Comment: Doloj Kliper! (Down with Clipper!)
  3. News: Editor of Prospect magazine denies any alternative to religion
  4. News: David Williams speaks at the Royal Aeronautical Society
• Issue 12, 4 October 2006
  1. Letter: The Space Elevator option, by Andy Nimmo
  2. Quotes from: Anousheh Ansari’s Space Blog
• Issue 11, 1 September 2006
  1. Debate: What direction for UK space policy?
  2. Debate: UK space policy – Let’s inspire the younger generation!, by Simon Evetts
  3. Debate: UK space policy – Analysis of the options, by Stephen Ashworth
  4. Art exhibition: “The Starry Messenger” – Space art at Compton Verney
• Issue 10, 1 August 2006
  1. Controversy: What shall we do with the Space Development Council?
  2. News: UK science funding to be reorganised
  3. Clarification: “HSE” a well established acronym
• Issue 9, 1 July 2006
  1. News: Lembit Opik MP speaks at the BIS
  2. Celebration: International Space Day proposed for Apollo anniversary
• Issue 8, 1 June 2006
  1. Essay: Religion and the astronautical viewpoint
  2. Letter: from Jim Trounson
  3. Essay: Are we alone in the Galaxy?, by Mike Combs (Extract)
  4. News: Debate on the UK in space at the BIS
• Issue 7, 1 May 2006
  1. News: Presentation at the Oxford Union
  2. Talk: Are we alone in the universe? (Extract)
  3. Invitation: Space and religion / space versus religion
• Issue 6, 1 April 2006
  1. Debate: The Scientific American cosmic ray debate
  2. Analysis: Europe’s Martian Dream
  3. News: Euro-Mars habitat arrives in the UK
  4. Correction: The two Clarke awards
• Issue 5, 1 March 2006
  1. Essay: Exploration is good; political and economic relevance is better
  2. News: BROHP 2006: the place to be this April
• Issue 4, 1 February 2006
  1. Tom Harris and Charles Laughlin on why robots are not enough: people want to travel in space in person
  2. The space index measures human activity in space since 1961
  3. Royal Aeronautical Society launches its own study of UK policy on manned spaceflight
• Issue 3, 1 January 2006
  • Astronautical Evolution in 2006
  • BIS one-day space tourism symposium
  • On NASA’s plans to return to the Moon
  • Europe’s Martian Dream / Europe’s Footprint on Mars

2005:

• Issue 2, 17 October 2005
  • Virgin moves closer to first-time experience
  • Forthcoming anniversaries
  • Europe’s Martian Dream
• Issue 1, 19 July 2005
  • Astronautical Evolution – One small step closer to reality [re the Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) conference in Oxford]
  • One small step ... [re the quibble over Neil Armstrong’s words as he stepped onto the lunar surface]
  • Sixtieth anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings