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Chronicle 2025
Space Chronicle Volume 5-2 April 2025

Contents

ESA@50: THE FORMATIVE YEARS
Tee story of how the European Space Agency was formed amidst a backdrop of political and budgetary uncertainty.
Brian Harvey

ENDING OF AN ERA

Remembering the BIS Soviet Technical Forum (later the Sino-Russian Forum), which ran for 45 years.
David J. Shayler

THE GARDEN SHED ASTRONOMER

The story of BIS member and amateur astronomer Hugh Percival Williams and his detailed map of the lunar surface.
Griffith Ingram
Space Chronicle Volume 5-1 January 2025

Contents

A STEP TOO FAR?

A former NASA historian traces the agency's stop-start approach to retrieving rock samples from Mars.
David S.F. Portree

A TITANIC ACHIEVEMENT

An insider's personal perspective of ESA's hugely successful Huygens probe and its 2005 landing on Saturn's moon, Titan.
Paolo Ferri

SPICING UP THE DATA
The story of how systems had to be put in place to ensure the safe storage, retrieval and utilisation of the ever-increasing amount of data being received from space, as told by the former manager of NASA's Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility.
Charles Acton
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