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Sep 4, 2024 | 
bis-space.com | David Whitehouse
JOIN the BIS community ONLINE get-togetherOur monthly online social is open to anybody who is serious about space!This is a forum for open discussion and ideas, and the sharing of information of BIS events and activities. A place to meet, make connections, discuss all things Space. Not a BIS member yet? Join us to learn more about the BIS and meet like-minded people interested in all aspects of space and astronautics.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Joseph Moreno |Graeme Thomson |Aidan Hartley |David Whitehouse
You’ve got to hand it to President Biden — even in his diminished state he still has a few tricks up his sleeve. You might think that as our octogenarian commander-in-chief is dragged kicking and screaming from office, amid the ignominious fumes of family influence-peddling no less, the last things he would shine a spotlight on are judicial term limits and ethics rules.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | David Whitehouse |Charles Lipson |Philip Patrick |Jim Lawley
At Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio there is, it is rumored, a secret underground room where a crashed alien spacecraft is kept. It’s warm to the touch, buzzing with a strange energy, an indication of technology light years ahead of ours. Meanwhile, over at Groom Lake Air Force Base in Nevada, otherwise known as Area 51, there are apparently more alien spaceships, some intact, as well as the preserved bodies of alien pilots. Is it true?
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | David Whitehouse |John Keiger |Andrew Kenny
China’s Chang’e-6 Moon mission was launched on May 3. It reached lunar orbit a few days later and began waiting for sunrise over its landing site on the Moon’s far side. Chang’e-6 is named after the Chinese goddess of the Moon and it will land on Sunday in a crater called Apollo — an ancient double-ringed walled plain caused by an asteroid smashing into the young Moon.
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Apr 13, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Julius Strauss |Andrew Taylor |Douglas Murray |David Whitehouse
Velyka Pysarivka, UkraineThe residents of Velyka Pysarivka had almost finished renovating their municipal library. They laid the floor with large white tiles, built a special section for hundreds of brightly-colored children’s books which they brought in from the city, and even painted a large cartoon giraffe with oversized spectacles on one wall to make the place feel welcoming. Although the Ukrainian village was close to the Russian border it had, until last month, escaped the worst of the war.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | David Whitehouse |Andrew Taylor |Douglas Murray |Robin Ashenden
Some time soon we will have to say farewell to our most distant emissary — the Voyager 1 spacecraft. After almost fifty years in space, it’s 15 billion miles away and showing signs of wear and could soon stop transmitting. Late last year, Voyager 1 began to decline, sending back spools of gibberish to its handlers on this planet.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Douglas Murray |Andrew Taylor |David Whitehouse |Robin Ashenden
There are many misunderstandings about Israel in the international media, but one of the most bewildering is the suggestion that if it weren’t for the presence of Benjamin Netanyahu the war would end. It is one of those mistakes that at best mixes up hope with analysis, and at worst displays a dumbfounding ignorance. Let me give you an example. In recent months I think I’ve interviewed everybody in Israeli politics who might some day replace Netanyahu.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Andrew Taylor |Douglas Murray |David Whitehouse |Robin Ashenden
So you’d like to borrow half-a-billion dollars? It’s a tribute to the epic ambitions of this novel that the reader swallows questions like this without blinking. In a sense that’s fair enough because City in Ruins is the third book of a trilogy loosely modeled on the great poems of the classical world, particularly the Iliad and the Aeneid.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Andrew Taylor |Douglas Murray |David Whitehouse |Robin Ashenden
There’s something in the water in New York’s 3rd district, which continues to pump out interesting candidates for Congress. Of course, we had George Santos. Enough said there. Then after the colorful Santos was expelled from Congress in a historic vote, Republicans nominated Mazi Pilip, an IDF veteran and Ethiopian immigrant, who lost in a special election to Democrat Tom Suozzi, who is… vastly less interesting than his GOP counterparts.
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Feb 27, 2023 | 
bis-space.com | David Whitehouse
Date: Saturday 3 June 2023, 10:00-1700 BSTVenue: BIS HQ, London and OnlineThe BIS International Space Forum After a short break, we are reinstating the Forum, building on its successful heritage and developing it to widen its horizons. The newly titled ‘BIS International Space Forum’ is an evolution of the long-standing and highly successful ‘Sino-Russian Technical Forum’.
