Clipper or Shuttle?
\nKeith T Wilson takes a close look at the tussle for providing a nationally approved name for NASA\u2019s Space Transportation System, which by a narrow margin may have been something entirely different.<\/p>\n
The last Shuttle
\nThe last Space Shuttle built, Endeavour is in a temporary enclosure in Los Angeles prior to the construction of a permanent display, so the Editor thought it was time to reflect on a great spaceship.<\/p>\n
Meeting Endeavour
\nFabrizio Bernardini looked in on the Samuel Oschin Pavilion at the California Science Center to check out Endeavour and find out what else is on show and how the principal exhibit will eventually be displayed.<\/p>\n
Commercial paths to an asteroid
\nChris Starr looks at a very different way of supporting asteroid research through commercial activities supporting space science using vehicles developed for space tourism.<\/p>\n
A Stacksat story?
\nDwayne Day reflects on the story of Stacksat, a group of three satellites launched on a redundant Atlas-Altair in 1990 and ponders over whether the urge to launch very small satellites will really take hold.<\/p>\n
Regular Features<\/strong><\/p>\n Britain in Space \u2013 Education at top of BIS Agenda \u2013 Setting the pace<\/p>\n World News Analysis \u2013 Decision time \u2013 Chang\u2019e 3<\/p>\n Briefing notes \u2013 news shorts from around the world<\/p>\n From the Editor<\/p>\n Satellite Digest \u2013 494 December 2013<\/p>\n ISS Operations Summary \u2013 12 December 2013 to 15 January 2014<\/p>\n Society News \u2013 West Midlands Space Day \u2013 Space Oddity \u2013 New BIS Member Survey \u2013 Branch for Belgians proposed \u2013 BIS launch near sell-out<\/p>\n Diary Notices<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":892,"template":"","meta":{"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"pwb-brand":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[89],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-1528","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-2014-spaceflight","product_shipping_class-magazine","first","instock","purchasable","product-type-variable","czr-hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brands":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pwb-brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pwb-brand?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}