Spaceflight November 2008

Contents

International Space News
Space Shuttle demise raises crew transport issue, Arctic sea ice reaches lowest coverage for 2008, Launch of GOCE delayed, Competition for ESA Space Station mission, Enrico Fermi gamma-ray telescope, Crew named in advance for China’s historic spacewalk, Venus Express puts together image of windy planet, UK experiments could fly on SpaceShipTwo, Government should recognise dependency on space, Rosetta’s flypast

Satellite Digest 

A visionary British engineer
Stephen Ashworth

Space Station Chronology
Neville Kidger
 
Forerunner to global telecoms revolution
Philip Corneille

Five decades of radio astronomy
Philip Corneille 

Forgotten flight of Apollo 7
Ken MacTaggart

Letters and emails
Making the case for lunar solar power, Visit to Tanegashima, Surely we are intelligent?

Viewpoint
Historian’s approach to the Moon landings
Martyn Bennett

Society news
Hurricane Ike hits Glasgow’s live ISS linkup , BIS Annual General Meeting, UKSEDS - celebrating 20 years, New Society members, Meetings and Announcements