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Founded in 1938 by Kenneth W. Gatland and H. N. Pantlin, two junior draftsmen at Hawker Aircraft. The group operated out of Surbiton and Tolworth in Surrey. As a result of correspondence in "Flight" magazine Gatland came into contact with Eric Burgess of the MAA . In 1942 Burgess and Gatland began to publish joint bulletins before formally merging the two groups into the CBAS in ...

CBAS was formed during World War II by the merger of the Manchester Astronautical Association (MAA) and the Astronautical Development Society (ADS). After the BIS fell into stasis at the beginning of 1940 Eric ... would result in the new combination reverting to the old name of the British Interplanetary Society and would proceed on for the next 70+ years. Burgess would be member 1 in ...

... . Final pre-mission training and simulation In May, 1969, George Mueller agreed to develop a small vehicle for the astronauts to use on the "J" missions (Apollos 15, 16, and 17). The ... in the LRL, the astronauts were debriefed by a team of scientists and engineers while the samples were unpacked, examined, cataloged and the photographs taken by the astronauts developed. In the meantime, we ...

... added: “Mr. K.R. Stehling, formerly President of the University of Toronto’s Rocket Society, undertook to develop the power plant and it fell to my lot to provide the basic ... Astronautics (AIAA), the British Interplanetary Society, an Honorary Fellow of the Lighter-than-Air Society, a member of the Board of Governors of the Optical Society of America, the Explorers Club, the Philosophical Society ...

... were to become the property of the Government. The German Society refused the offer, knowing full well that the idea was to develop the rocket as a weapon of war...” Then he ... Technology," in Phillipe Jung, ed., History of Rocketry and Astronautics – Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth History Symposium of the International Academy of Astronautics (Univelt, Inc.: San Diego, 1997), AAS History Series, Vol ...

... in the journal of the American Interplanetary Society. Instead, there was only a much later brief mention in the Society's new journal, ''Astronautics'', for December-January 1933. “Herr Heinrich (''sic ... merits during the founding of the German Test Center for Aeronautics and during the development of the Propeller (Driven) Railroad.” Steinitz, then a well-known aeronautical engineer specializing ...

... Astronautical Societies CBAS - Robert L. Sternberg Electronic Spacial Rocket - Report of Combined British Astronautical Societies CBAS Meeting on Jun 16 1945 - Report of the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Combined British Astronautical Societies ... Meetings - German Industrial Developments - Britain Can Make It Exhibition - Reviews - ...

... E.V. Breslau (Breslau Model and Sail Flight Society Selesian Eagle Registered Society, Breslau). ref 11 . Highlights Of Issues ... and near space; (2), development of a “Long-Distance Rocket; and finally, (3), the development of a true “Space ... astronautical pioneer, Robert Esnault-Pelterie titled, “Astronautics and Relativity Theory.” This appears to be the first usage of the term “astronautics” ...

... visionary or idealistic phase. Yet there is no question the Society's Die Rakete greatly helped more widely circulate several key astronautical concepts that helped form the foundation of the then ... below, was to be of profound importance towards the overall technological development of the rocket and extended towards its development in its application in the exploration of space. ref 18 ...

... of Astronautics, 29 September – 3 October 2014, Toronto, Canada. Paper IAC-14-E4.1.6.x24243.'' The American Astronautical Society (AAS) has been a key pioneer in promoting space exploration and spacecraft development since ... Series, Vol. 98 (San Diego, California: published for the American Astronautical Society, by Univelt, Inc., 2000). Twenty-Five Years of the American Astronautical Society (Proceedings of an AAS History Workshop held in conjunction with ...

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