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Index to archive of past issues, 2007-2008

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2008:

• Issue 39, 6 December 2008
  1. How to build a space station? by Stephen Ashworth
  2. Don't forget the Arthurs!
• Issue 38, 1 December 2008
  1. So many ways to Mars! by Stephen Ashworth
  2. Transport for Areopolis, by Stephen Ashworth
• Issue 37, 1 November 2008
  1. Will there be a Space Industrial Revolution? by Stephen Ashworth
• Issue 36, 5 October 2008
  1. News: The Space X / Falcon 1 success on 28 September
  2. Elon Musk at the Royal Aeronautical Society -- Report by Stephen Ashworth
  3. Beyond Mars, by Stephen Ashworth
  4. Resource wars and Gerard O'Neill's space colonies -- Letter from Jerry Stone
• Issue 35, 1 October 2008
  1. Can space solar power help to prevent future resource wars? -- Letter from M. V. Smith
  2. More comment on population growth -- from Vincent Baritsch, Stephen Ashworth and Ray Wright
• Issue 34, 1 September 2008
  1. "The real problem is human overpopulation" -- Letter from Ray Wright
  2. "Carrying capacity depends on technological level" -- Response from Stephen Ashworth
• Issue 33, 1 August 2008
  1. The Great Solar Power Debate continues! -- (1) Comment from M. V. "Coyote" Smith
  2. The Great Solar Power Debate continues! -- (2) Comment from Jerry Stone
  3. The Great Solar Power Debate continues! -- (3) Comment from Michael Martin-Smith
• Issue 32, 1 July 2008
  1. The Solar Power Debate (1): Exchanges between Ray Wright and Stephen Ashworth
  2. The Solar Power Debate (2): Exchanges between Dwayne Day and Stephen Ashworth
  3. Space.co.uk newsletter
  4. The Overview Institute
  5. Breaking news: France plans revolution in space
• Issue 31, 1 June 2008
  1. Astrium proposes crude spaceship, by Stephen Ashworth
  2. Astroelectric power: the breakthrough starts here, by Stephen Ashworth
• Issue 30, 1 May 2008
  1. BIS Symposium: "Next Steps for Space Infrastructure"
  2. Celebrating (?) the Tunguska asteroid strike 100 years ago
  3. "Europe should give up on sending men and women into space" -- Martin Rees
• Issue 29, 12 April 2008
  1. NASA's plans for future lunar exploration, by Stephen Ashworth
  2. How to make lunar ISRU work, by Stephen Ashworth
  3. "Building Selenopolis" at the BIS, by Stephen Ashworth
  4. The Sir Arthur Clarke Awards for 2008
• Issue 28, 1 March 2008
  1. "2008 is the Year of the Spaceship" -- Virgin Galactic
  2. "2008 is the Year of Selenopolis" -- Stephen Ashworth
  3. Thoughts on microgravity science
  4. And finally ... Ministers consider UK astronauts
• Issue 27, 1 February 2008
  1. UK in space: a bold proposal to join the ISS
  2. Announcing the UK Space Conference, Charterhouse School, 27-29 March 2008
  3. A plethora of different ways to reach Mars -- Bond, Parkinson and Hempsell in debate
• Issue 26, 1 January 2008
  1. Manned spaceflight in 2007: The recovery continues, slowly
  2. The Space Exploration Working Group misses the point
  3. "A New British Space Age" -- report by J. Duncan Law-Green

2007:

• (No issue in December 2007)
• Issue 25, 1 November 2007
  1. The Space Exploration Working Group takes one giant leap forward for the UK ... and then one giant leap back, by Stephen Ashworth
  2. NASA to "pull out" of the ISS at the end of 2015, by Stephen Ashworth
  3. Meeting at the British Interplanetary Society: "Three Ways to Mars"
• Issue 24, 1 October 2007
  1. 50 years on, could the UK be waking up to spaceflight? Letter from Alan Bond FBIS
  2. 50 years of development, by Stephen Ashworth
  3. "UK must have human space role" -- BBC news
  4. UK already has human space role -- Virgin Galactic news
  5. Gems from the Select Committee: Colin Pillinger on attitudes to failure
  6. Gems from New Scientist: Space colonisation "has turned out to be a pipe dream"
• Issue 23, 1 September 2007
  1. Select Committee Report: 2007: A Space Policy -- A resoundingly lukewarm endorsement of the UK in space, by Stephen Ashworth
  2. Comment: Joint European Space Policy, by Jacqueline Myrrhe
  3. Select Committee revisited: the Leaked Draft Report, by Stephen Ashworth
• (No issue in August 2007)
• Issue 22 extra, 6 July 2007
  1. Report: The Oxford debate on the UK in space, by Stephen Ashworth
• Issue 22, 1 July 2007
  1. Review: European Space Policy -- slow ahead, wait for others to lead the way
  2. Europe In Space Poll: "Should Europe have its own independent manned spaceflight programme?"
  3. Letter to New Scientist: A scientific account of consciousness is emerging
• Issue 21, 1 June 2007
  1. News: New European space forum
  2. Comment: Farewell, Tony Blair -- almost Britain's greatest space supporter
  3. Review: UK prime ministerial online petition system
  4. Review: Michael Griffin's next 50 years in space
• Issue 20, 1 May 2007
  1. Essay: Space: the incorruptible realm, by Stephen Ashworth
  2. Notice: Michael Griffin's view of the next 50 years
  3. Essay: Astronautics and consciousness, by Stephen Ashworth
• Issue 19, 1 April 2007
  1. Book now! -- BROHP 2007: "Space Really Matters"
  2. Book, new! -- Professor Dawkins versus God, by Stephen Ashworth
• Issue 18, 1 March 2007
  1. Open letter to Professor Timothy Garton Ash, by Stephen Ashworth
  2. RocketMania! for kids, by Jon London
  3. Astronauts at the Edinburgh ESA exploration workshop
• Issue 17, 1 February 2007
  1. Report: The ESA Exploration Workshop at Edinburgh
  2. Analysis: Suborbital to orbital needs a giant leap after all
  3. Forthcoming public lectures by Jerry Stone FBIS
• Issue 16, 1 January 2007
  1. Spaceflight in 2006: A modest recovery
  2. Analysis: Stepping up from suborbital to orbital commercial spaceflight
  3. Report: The 2006 BIS-BNSC space tourism conference

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