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Topic: British Interplanetary Society's Spaceflight
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Philip
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posted 10-13-2006 12:19 PM
   
Dwayne's articles in the space history sections surely give that special touch to Spaceflight magazine.For the rest, manned spaceflight is well covered and since the last few years, unmanned spaceflight also got it share bit.  |
Philip
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posted 11-09-2006 02:24 PM
I feel a Mars-exploration related cover coming up for the first issue of 2007 |
ALAIN
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posted 12-07-2006 01:52 PM
No Mars cover I'm afraid. |
Philip
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posted 12-07-2006 02:17 PM
Yep, I mean no... the editor told me he didn't find a real good resolution Mars image before the monthly deadline, so I hope for a Mars cover in February, especially after this. |
Philip
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posted 12-18-2006 06:40 AM
Interesting article by Thomas Frieling on the AAP (Apollo Applications Program) in the January 2007 BIS’ monthly issue Spaceflight (pages 28 to 33).AAP envisioned dozens of launches of manned spaceflight even to conduct a dual launch mission, during which the LEM that first landed would be used as a LEM shelter as a base of operations for a two week extended lunar surface stay. Listings for Saturn 1B flights assignments SA-201 to SA-228 and Saturn V flight assignments SA-501 to SA-525 are also given. Philip |
Dwayne Day
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posted 12-18-2006 09:15 AM
Frieling's article is pretty good.I'm going to have something in February on NASA's Constellation plans. I should also have articles following that as well. Just noticed that I had seven articles in Spaceflight in 2006. I'm going to try and beat that in 2007... |
Philip
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posted 12-22-2006 04:51 AM
Looking forward to your attempt Dwayne. As I started to work half-time I'll try to get a Mars-exploration related article in 10 of the 12 magazines. How's that as a New Year's resolution? |
Dwayne Day
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posted 12-22-2006 09:17 AM
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Originally posted by Philip:
I'll try to get a Mars-exploration related article in 10 of the 12 magazines.
Well, if you're aiming for ten issues, then I'm going to aim for ten issues. I'll bug Clive until he hates me... |
Dwayne Day
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posted 12-27-2006 02:32 PM
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Originally posted by Philip:
Interesting article by Thomas Frieling on the AAP (Apollo Applications Program) in the January 2007 BIS’ monthly issue Spaceflight (pages 28 to 33).
This didn't register when I read it, but I guess it means that the January issue has been out for several weeks now. I haven't seen it yet. I'll have to ask Tom Frieling for one of his extra copies. I was happy to see that Spaceflight now shows up in my local Barnes and Noble. They usually have 2-3 copies for sale and I buy one if I don't have an article in that issue (unless I can mooch a copy off of somebody that I know). |
ALAIN
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posted 01-12-2007 05:59 AM
Nice to see NASA.gov advertising on the backcover of the February 2007 issue.Otherwise again a nice monthly, this time focused on the subject of space centres with articles on ESA Kourou and NASDA Tanegashima. |
Dwayne Day
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posted 01-16-2007 07:48 AM
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Originally posted by ALAIN:
Otherwise again a nice monthly, this time focused on the subject of space centres with articles on ESA Kourou and NASDA Tanegashima.
I just received my copy and there are indeed two short articles on this subject featuring some illustrations that I have not seen before. I think that reporting on the rarely seen launch sites is quite valuable. Once again, the paper and reproduction quality is high. Spaceflight went through a period where the photos were all faded/muddy and the overall print quality was low. But for at least a year now they've had really top quality printing. |
Philip
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posted 01-16-2007 01:05 PM
I'll have to second Dwayne, Spaceflight magazine certainly has a better "look & feel" ...and Dwayne's articles make the contents supreme quality. |
Dwayne Day
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posted 01-16-2007 02:16 PM
That is most kind.I'll add that while the February issue contains an article by me concerning planning for the lunar program, I just wrote a follow-up for that concerning the lunar outpost plans. Taken together, they should give you a pretty good description of the current plans for the American lunar return program. Of course, in both articles I make it clear that this is by no means assured. Budget cuts or a change in policy could lead to these plans being shelved. And let me digress even more... it occurred to me that one of the problems with the web is that things are constantly being revised. The web is not a good place to determine what people understood to be the situation at a specific period in time. Print, however, has a greater permanence. So if ten years from now the lunar plans have been abandoned, or transformed substantially, I think that Spaceflight will be a good place to see what was being planned as of 2007. |
cspg
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posted 01-17-2007 01:50 AM
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Originally posted by Philip:
I'll have to second Dwayne, Spaceflight magazine certainly has a better "look & feel"
Agree with the layout (compared to the one 10 years ago!). A tiny effort regarding the layout of the "Space News" section wouldn't hurt- it's a bit messy.Chris. |
cspg
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posted 01-17-2007 01:53 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Dwayne Day:
And let me digress even more... it occurred to me that one of the problems with the web is that things are constantly being revised. The web is not a good place to determine what people understood to be the situation at a specific period in time. Print, however, has a greater permanence. So if ten years from now the lunar plans have been abandoned, or transformed substantially, I think that Spaceflight will be a good place to see what was being planned as of 2007.
Couldn't agree more. I'll always prefer printed material (books & magazines). Chris. |
Philip
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posted 01-17-2007 05:33 AM
Indeed Dwayne, even now some firms already made plans to make an Internet-archive of web pages but that's an impossible job given the number of pages. Most important items in my collection are old spaceflight books (von Braun, NASA SP series etc.) and old brochures & magazines (NASA EP series, Spaceflight & Russian magazines). |
Dwayne Day
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posted 01-17-2007 07:59 AM
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Originally posted by cspg:
Agree with the layout (compared to the one 10 years ago!).
Actually, I was commenting more on the print and paper quality, not the layout. I've always thought that Spaceflight had a very conventional, conservative layout. They stick rather rigidly to their column format and don't do anything fancy with the titles or opening pages. Compare them to other magazines, even astronomy magazines, and they're pretty staid.That said, I understand why this is. They're doing a small run publication. They don't have a lot of money and cannot do things like commission graphic artists and illustrators. I imagine that they don't have a separate layout and design team. So this makes sense. I'm not really very concerned with a flashier layout. But you're right that some of these things can be improved. |
cspg
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posted 01-17-2007 10:06 AM
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Originally posted by Dwayne Day:
Actually, I was commenting more on the print and paper quality, not the layout.
Well, I don't mind if they stick to a conservative approach to their publication. I prefer consistency to fancy-looking design layout which don't bring anything new to the contents of the publication. I really hated Aviation Week, which "had" (?) to change their layout completely every 3 years or so...Chris. |
johntosullivan
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posted 01-17-2007 11:02 AM
I must say I was disappointed with the amount of typos in January's issue. Proof reading shouldn't break the bank.John
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Dwayne Day
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posted 01-17-2007 11:37 AM
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Originally posted by cspg:
I really hated Aviation Week, which "had" (?) to change their layout completely every 3 years or so...
I never understood that either. Aviation Week has a generally conservative layout as one would expect of such a publication. But they do have a tendency to change things around several times a decade. It must have something to do with changes in editorial staff.
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Dwayne Day
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posted 01-23-2007 08:23 AM
I just got the page proofs for my next article, a short one on the SV5J lifting body. Not sure which issue that one will appear in. quote:
Originally posted by Dwayne Day:
Well, if you're aiming for ten issues, then I'm going to aim for ten issues.
So I'm up to 2 for 2007... |
Philip
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posted 01-29-2007 01:00 PM
Been there already Dwayne Best regards,
Philip |
Dwayne Day
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posted 01-29-2007 03:32 PM
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Originally posted by Philip:
Been there already Dwayne.
The race is on...Meanwhile, switching topics, has anybody seen a good article on NASA's range tracking ships? In Spaceflight? Or somewhere else? I'm going to post a separate request about this, but think that Spaceflight might have done one. |
Dwayne Day
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posted 02-09-2007 09:26 AM
The latest issue of Spaceflight hit my door yesterday. This one has my article on the SV5J lifting body. The paper and photo quality is great. |
heng44
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posted 02-10-2007 03:35 AM
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Originally posted by Dwayne Day:
The latest issue of Spaceflight hit my door yesterday. This one has my article on the SV5J lifting body. The paper and photo quality is great.
...and so is the article itself. Nice job, Dwayne. Ed |
art540
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posted 02-10-2007 09:02 AM
I am very happy to see the quality images now in Spaceflight. The recent front cover Soyuz launch was a superb image. And of course I always look forward to articles by Day and Powell. |
Dwayne Day
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posted 02-11-2007 02:24 PM
Thank you, that is most kind.I have at least a dozen articles each greater than 90% complete that I should submit. The problem is that the final edits and assembling the photographs is not something I look forward to. Very time consuming for little actual payoff (payoff being partly measured by how fun it is to do--the writing is more fun). The next up will be an article on the lunar outpost plans that is already submitted. The problem is that I don't have any photos or illustrations for it. I do have some slides that were produced showing the buildup of the outpost, but those cannot be converted into print quality imagery. After that it's somewhat of a toss-up. I plan on submitting my article on the Blue Gemini program soon. But another article that is essentially done is a history of the Gemini paraglider program. I did almost no primary source research on this; I primarily used Ed Hengeveld's Quest article plus two NASA books, plus a few early contractor documents. However, the photos I've assembled are great. Not only good photos of the 1960s era tests, but also photos of the restoration of one of the drop test boilerplate capsules as well as the Parasev and the Gemini paraglider training vehicle. All three are now in museums. Which actually raises another question: the training vehicle is now in the Smithsonian, but was previously on display in (I think) England. I believe it might actually have been on display in an airport. Does anybody have any details? |
FFrench
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posted 02-11-2007 07:02 PM
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Originally posted by Dwayne Day:
Which actually raises another question: the training vehicle is now in the Smithsonian, but was previously on display in (I think) England. I believe it might actually have been on display in an airport. Does anybody have any details?
There was one on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, England ten years ago. Not sure if it is still there. Here is the website.It looks like it might now be up in Edinburgh, assuming it's the same one. Milt Thompson's book, "Flying Without Wings," discusses the program too, if you are looking for other sources. |
Dwayne Day
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posted 02-12-2007 08:31 AM
Thank you, that's great info. It appears as if that is TTV-2 and the one on display at the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center (i.e. "the Dulles annex") is TTV-1. TTV-1 is in very nice shape, whereas TTV-2 really needs to be painted.You can find a picture of TTV-1 here. Once again, thanks for the help. |
FFrench
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posted 02-12-2007 09:04 AM
Glad that was useful to you - happy to help. |
Philip
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posted 02-12-2007 12:18 PM
Great article/interview of Anousheh Ansari by Tony Quine on her Soyuz flight. Superb photo of the original TMA-08 crew (Malenchenko + Whitson + Ansari) which I never saw before!Spaceflight March 2007 (pages 100 - 104). |
Dwayne Day
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posted 02-12-2007 01:25 PM
I did notice that the February and March covers are very similar. You can see the covers here. Raises an interesting question: what are the best Spaceflight covers of all time? |
Philip
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posted 02-13-2007 11:13 AM
The answer is easy: April 2006 |
Dwayne Day
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posted 02-13-2007 01:59 PM
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Originally posted by Philip:
The answer is easy: April 2006
Yep, that's a pretty good one. I think the January cover is pretty good as well. I'll have to look through my collection to see what other ones qualify. Unfortunately, I think they missed the opportunity to use some of the better shuttle at ISS photos taken during the backflip maneuver. That said, I understand that a lot of factors go into selecting a cover. They probably have to spread out the topics and cannot simply run 12 shuttle covers during the year. Also, cover photos have to allow the masthead to fit in there, plus have space to put in other title information and such. And I imagine that they know from experience that certain types of covers sell better than others. When I worked at Air & Space Magazine, they told me that their top selling issue of all time was the one that featured a ground launch of a F-100 jet using a giant rocket assist. It is a very dramatic photo. It sold them a lot of issues. |
Tonyq
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posted 02-13-2007 02:33 PM
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Originally posted by Philip:
Great article/interview of Anousheh ANSARI by Tony Quine on her Soyuz flight.
Philip - thanks very much for the positive feedback.It was a privilege to receive Anousheh's support to attempt this feature and her personal approval of the final manuscript. She was a great interviewee, and very willing to talk about all aspects of her great adventure.
Several of the photos came from her own archive and have not appeared elsewhere. Part 2 is in the final stages of preparation and will appear next month. When I decided to produce this piece last October, I wanted to write the most comprehensive account anywhere of Anousheh's spaceflight, and I hope I've come close to achieving this. Tony |
Philip
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posted 02-15-2007 01:26 PM
Tony, looking forward to that 2nd part...Dwayne, our count is per issue right, not per article |
Dwayne Day
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posted 02-15-2007 05:14 PM
Yeah, it is per issue, not article. But I'm already losing ground: only February and April, no January or March articles... |
Dwayne Day
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posted 03-02-2007 01:56 PM
Anybody have the April issue? I see that there's an article in there on protecting astronauts from radiation. I worked on a study on this topic last year and have some interest in the subject. |
Philip
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posted 03-03-2007 05:40 AM
I'll have it this week Dwayne (BTW, I have articles in the April + May + June issues coming up). I'll keep an April issue for you. |
Dwayne Day
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posted 03-05-2007 12:18 PM
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Originally posted by Philip:
I'll have it this week Dwayne (BTW, I have articles in the April + May + June issues coming up). I'll keep an April issue for you.
So you're in April, May and June?!Yes, I'd like an April issue if you get an extra. Thanks. |
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