Thursday 24th July
Plenary
11.00 - 12.30 An Update on Skylon
Alan Bond
Herschel
Prof. Matt Griffin
12.30 – 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 14.30
Parallel 1 Parallel 2
Vickers Transonic Model Space Debris
Kate Pyne Dr Lucy Rogers
British Heroes of Apollo Airborne Engineering
Dave Wright James McFarlane
14.30 Coffee Break
15.10 – 17.30 Videoconference - Houston
Friday 25th July
Plenary
09.30-11.00 Exploring Mars
Prof. Fred Taylor
Time for the Stars
Kelvin Long
11.00-11.30 Coffee Break
11.30-12.50
Parallel 1 Parallel 2
From Project Daedalus to Rosetta
Project Icarus and Beyond ED Trollope (TBC)
Rob Swinney
Advanced electrical propulsion Ptolemy Instrument on Rosetta
For Interstellar Precursor missions Dr. Dan Andrews
Angelo Genovese
12.50-2.10 Lunch
14.10 - 15.30
Starship Futures Journey into Space
John Davies Gerry Webb
A discussion of the Messaging
Extraterrestrial Intelligence Debate Alan Bond
Stephen Ashworth
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00- 17.20
An Audience with George Abbey Dave Wright & George Abbey
19.00 Conference Dinner
Saturday 26th July
Plenary
09.30 – 11.00 Early History of the BIS
Dr Bob Parkinson
History of the UK Space Sector Alistair Scott
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 – 12.50
Parallel 1 Parallel 2
Discussion of Space History Water Rocket Workshop
The History of the Stevenage Site The National Physics Lab Water Rocket
John Thatcher Challenge
On the Surface of Another World – Andrew Hanson
12.50 – 14.10 Lunch
The Future of Robotic Explorers The Work of the BIS Education Committee
Aron Kidsi Dr. Stuart Eves
Hybrid Rocket Motor Demonstration World Space Week 4 – 10 October 2014
Edward Moore VIx Southgate
UK School Rocket Competition BIS History Committee
Helen Barraclough John Becklake
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 – 17.00 In the Next 20 years
Stuart Eves
Memoirs of the Soviet Space Programme
Oleg Sokolov
The History of the Russian ‘Breeze’
upper stage family