Carl Sagan, Arthur C. Clarke and Helen Sharman – you’re always in good company whenever you visit the British Interplanetary Society's library in Vauxhall! Join us in our journey “from imagination to reality” to access to this remarkable resource. #Odyssey #BIS_Odyssey @bsfa.bsky.social

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

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
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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

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

#3 “Space Chronicle” - April 2025: articles also include reflections on the life of the late Bill Anders, 45 years of the BIS Soviet and Sino-Russian forum, and the Moon-suit/SFX modelling of Mat Irvine. #Odyssey #BIS_Odyssey #Space #BIS #history #ESA #astronaut @artistburns.bsky.social

#2 in the latest issue of Space Chronicle read how civil servant and BIS member Hugh Percival Williams moonlighted as an amateur astronomer from his back garden in Kent to create the most detailed map of the lunar surface yet seen at that time. #Odyssey #BIS_Odyssey #Space #BIS #astronomy

#1 Reasons to join the BIS: “Space Chronicle,” one of the Society’s four key publications, edited by David J. Shayler. Latest issue out now! #Odyssey #BIS_Odyssey #Space #BIS #BritishInterplanetarySociety #history #ESA

RIP Val Kilmer who co-starred, alongside Marlon Brando, in a 1996 movie adaptation of what is possibly HG Wells' darkest novel - The Island of Dr Moreau.
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Odyssey Conjectures: The Space Station and the Underground Station collide: the Old World and the New, as it must have seemed back in 1968: what happened to the future?
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From the Odyssey archives: July 2011: we looked back at the BIS lecture given by Olaf Stapledon in 1948 entitled “Interplanetary Man.” Stapledon’s work was a huge influence on BIS member Arthur C. Clarke, helping to shape Clarke’s own cosmic speculations. #Odyssey #BIS_Odyssey
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From the Odyssey archives (July 2011): long time BIS member Ray Ward shared his memories of celebrity encounters, including this pic of Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov at a Mensa reception in 1974, and this snap of Buzz Aldrin meeting Arthur’s brother Fred. #BIS_Odyssey
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“From imagination to reality.” The lunar base envisioned by BIS Honorary member David Hardy may not have materialised as yet, but who knows where future lunar footprints may one day lead?
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“From imagination to reality.” We still don’t have the majestic space station envisioned by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke but who knows what will replace the ISS, or what the Chinese Space Agency may have up its technological sleeve?
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Reflections on the BIS motto: "From imagination to reality"...it's pretty close. #Odyssey #BIS_Odyssey
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Reflecting on Tom Wolfe’s "The Right Stuff": were America's first astronauts the rocket plane pilots who flew the experimental X-series to the edge of space and beyond in the 1950s and 1960s? Men like Chuck Yeager, Joe Walker, Scott Crossfield, and Neil Armstrong. #Odyssey #BIS_Odyssey
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From the Odyssey archives: Patrick was the very first editor of SpaceFlight magazine, taking up the post in 1956; he remained a fervent and committed supporter of the Society’s work throughout his remarkable life. Image courtesy of BIS member, Mat Irvine.
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From the Odyssey archives: in issue 4 (June 2011) we paid tribute to lifelong BIS member, Patrick Moore: Patrick joined the BIS while still a teenager and remembered being greeted at his first meeting by an equally young Arthur C. Clarke.
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Thank you ❤️ @markstewart2001.bsky.social
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So, what's your definition of an Odyssey? Homer's? Kubrick's? The epic quest of the Argonauts? A wandering journey without end? We explore these and other options in the March issue of the BIS's cultural magazine. ." #Odyssey #BIS_Odyssey #space #SpaceCulture #SCIFI #SF #sciencefiction
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"SpaceFlight" magazine AKA "The Interplanetary Express." In the April issue stops include Venus and the Moon. Also an interview with ESA astronaut John McFall. Free to BIS members.
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Odyssey remembers Arthur C. Clarke (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) - one of the founding members of the BIS. "Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying." #Odyssey #BIS_Odyssey #space #SpaceCulture #SCIFI #SF #sciencefiction
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Artist Jackie Burns' remarkable depiction of an iconic spacecraft. We will be featuring more of Jackie's work in future editions of Odyssey. #art #Odyssey #BIS_Odyssey #space #SpaceCulture #sciencefiction
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The amazing artwork of BIS Honorary member, David Hardy.
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Odyssey asks - What is your favourite SF book cover? The one, many years on from when you first bought the book, that you still have on your shelves?
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Thousands of books have been written about the American Moon-shots but Odyssey suggests you may only need to read three - Andrew Chaikin's "A Man on the Moon," Norman Mailer's "A Fire on the Moon," and this one...
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Reasons to join the BIS #2: access to the Society’s unique library and archive containing thousands of books, magazines, and journals on astronomy, space exploration, and space art and culture, housed in the BIS H/Q in Vauxhall.
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From the Odyssey archives: in April 2011 we began our voyage through the BIS archives, uncovering this photo of a man who knew a little bit about space shuttles, real and imagined. #Odyssey #ArthurCClarke #BIS_Odyssey #scifi #Space #sciencefiction