===== ASTRONAUTICAL EVOLUTION =====
Index to archive of past issues, 2007-2008
Click on an issue in the index to retrieve the full issue.
2008:
- Issue 39, 6 December 2008
- How to build a space station? by Stephen Ashworth
- Don't forget the Arthurs!
- Issue 38, 1 December 2008
- So many ways to Mars! by Stephen Ashworth
- Transport for Areopolis, by Stephen Ashworth
- Issue 37, 1 November 2008
- Will there be a Space Industrial Revolution? by Stephen Ashworth
- Issue 36, 5 October 2008
- News: The Space X / Falcon 1 success on 28 September
- Elon Musk at the Royal Aeronautical Society -- Report by Stephen Ashworth
- Beyond Mars, by Stephen Ashworth
- Resource wars and Gerard O'Neill's space colonies -- Letter from Jerry Stone
- Issue 35, 1 October 2008
- Can space solar power help to prevent future resource wars? -- Letter from M. V. Smith
- More comment on population growth -- from Vincent Baritsch, Stephen Ashworth and Ray Wright
- Issue 34, 1 September 2008
- "The real problem is human overpopulation" -- Letter from Ray Wright
- "Carrying capacity depends on technological level" -- Response from Stephen Ashworth
- Issue 33, 1 August 2008
- The Great Solar Power Debate continues! -- (1) Comment from M. V. "Coyote" Smith
- The Great Solar Power Debate continues! -- (2) Comment from Jerry Stone
- The Great Solar Power Debate continues! -- (3) Comment from Michael Martin-Smith
- Issue 32, 1 July 2008
- The Solar Power Debate (1): Exchanges between Ray Wright and Stephen Ashworth
- The Solar Power Debate (2): Exchanges between Dwayne Day and Stephen Ashworth
- Space.co.uk newsletter
- The Overview Institute
- Breaking news: France plans revolution in space
- Issue 31, 1 June 2008
- Astrium proposes crude spaceship, by Stephen Ashworth
- Astroelectric power: the breakthrough starts here, by Stephen Ashworth
- Issue 30, 1 May 2008
- BIS Symposium: "Next Steps for Space Infrastructure"
- Celebrating (?) the Tunguska asteroid strike 100 years ago
- "Europe should give up on sending men and women into space" -- Martin Rees
- Issue 29, 12 April 2008
- NASA's plans for future lunar exploration, by Stephen Ashworth
- How to make lunar ISRU work, by Stephen Ashworth
- "Building Selenopolis" at the BIS, by Stephen Ashworth
- The Sir Arthur Clarke Awards for 2008
- Issue 28, 1 March 2008
- "2008 is the Year of the Spaceship" -- Virgin Galactic
- "2008 is the Year of Selenopolis" -- Stephen Ashworth
- Thoughts on microgravity science
- And finally ... Ministers consider UK astronauts
- Issue 27, 1 February 2008
- UK in space: a bold proposal to join the ISS
- Announcing the UK Space Conference, Charterhouse School, 27-29 March 2008
- A plethora of different ways to reach Mars -- Bond, Parkinson and Hempsell in debate
- Issue 26, 1 January 2008
- Manned spaceflight in 2007: The recovery continues, slowly
- The Space Exploration Working Group misses the point
- "A New British Space Age" -- report by J. Duncan Law-Green
2007:
- (No issue in December 2007)
- Issue 25, 1 November 2007
- The Space Exploration Working Group takes one giant leap forward for the UK ... and then one giant leap back, by Stephen Ashworth
- NASA to "pull out" of the ISS at the end of 2015, by Stephen Ashworth
- Meeting at the British Interplanetary Society: "Three Ways to Mars"
- Issue 24, 1 October 2007
- 50 years on, could the UK be waking up to spaceflight? Letter from Alan Bond FBIS
- 50 years of development, by Stephen Ashworth
- "UK must have human space role" -- BBC news
- UK already has human space role -- Virgin Galactic news
- Gems from the Select Committee: Colin Pillinger on attitudes to failure
- Gems from New Scientist: Space colonisation "has turned out to be a pipe dream"
- Issue 23, 1 September 2007
- Select Committee Report: 2007: A Space Policy -- A resoundingly lukewarm endorsement of the UK in space, by Stephen Ashworth
- Comment: Joint European Space Policy, by Jacqueline Myrrhe
- Select Committee revisited: the Leaked Draft Report, by Stephen Ashworth
- (No issue in August 2007)
- Issue 22 extra, 6 July 2007
- Report: The Oxford debate on the UK in space, by Stephen Ashworth
- Issue 22, 1 July 2007
- Review: European Space Policy -- slow ahead, wait for others to lead the way
- Europe In Space Poll: "Should Europe have its own independent manned spaceflight programme?"
- Letter to New Scientist: A scientific account of consciousness is emerging
- Issue 21, 1 June 2007
- News: New European space forum
- Comment: Farewell, Tony Blair -- almost Britain's greatest space supporter
- Review: UK prime ministerial online petition system
- Review: Michael Griffin's next 50 years in space
- Issue 20, 1 May 2007
- Essay: Space: the incorruptible realm, by Stephen Ashworth
- Notice: Michael Griffin's view of the next 50 years
- Essay: Astronautics and consciousness, by Stephen Ashworth
- Issue 19, 1 April 2007
- Book now! -- BROHP 2007: "Space Really Matters"
- Book, new! -- Professor Dawkins versus God, by Stephen Ashworth
- Issue 18, 1 March 2007
- Open letter to Professor Timothy Garton Ash, by Stephen Ashworth
- RocketMania! for kids, by Jon London
- Astronauts at the Edinburgh ESA exploration workshop
- Issue 17, 1 February 2007
- Report: The ESA Exploration Workshop at Edinburgh
- Analysis: Suborbital to orbital needs a giant leap after all
- Forthcoming public lectures by Jerry Stone FBIS
- Issue 16, 1 January 2007
- Spaceflight in 2006: A modest recovery
- Analysis: Stepping up from suborbital to orbital commercial spaceflight
- Report: The 2006 BIS-BNSC space tourism conference