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An invitation to a new type of space convention

The British Interplanetary Society presents

FROM IMAGINATION	-       TO REALITY
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FROM IMAGINATION TO REALITY is a two day space convention to be held at the Berrill Theatre, Open University, Walton Hall, MK7 6AA   17th - 18th September 2011

The aim is to explain and promote space research in the UK, through a series of popular talks by well-known experts in their field.

The two-days will feature :

OUT OF THE CRADLE : What came before the Space Age - including Thunderbird’s creator;  Gerry Anderson; Alan Bond - inventor of HOTOL and Skylon; Piers Bizony, author of Filming the Future - the definitive story of 2001 : A Space Odyssey and Doug Millard of the Science Museum.

ONE SMALL STEP: The Moon, and on to Mars - including Professor Colin Pillinger, mastermind behind Beagle 2; Bo Maxwell, President of the Mars Society UK and Bob Parkinson, President of the BIS on the influence of R.A.Smith and his art-work on Project Apollo.

HOLIDAY OF A LIFETIME: Space Tourism and Commercial Space - including the story of Skylon - could this kick-start the British manned space industry;  Virgin Galactic’s plans for space tourism, Alistair Scott, of Astrium, on where the UK currently stands in the commercial space industry and Mat Irvine on a ‘space tourism’ movie that nearly got made - Arthur C. Clarke’s A Fall of Moondust.

OUT OF THIS WORLD : Life, the Universe and Everything - including Professor John Zarnecki and the UK input into Cassini-Huygens and Saturn; Jerry Stone looks at the next 50 years in space and award-winning writer, Stephen Baxter, on The SETI Guide to the Universe.

Click logo for details - location, times and prices - locate From Imagination To Reality under BIS Events..

For direct queries contact the organisers :
Mat Irvine or Jerry Stone

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