From its origin in 1933 the British Interplanetary Society has consistently harvested creative thoughts and practical experiments to spur progress in space science and engineering. Now we have the original scribblings of a truly inspirational pioneer who helped pave a road to the stars, charting a course - as the BIS motto has it - from imagination to reality. From the early days, rockets came top of the list of mechanisms required to put humans and their robotic precursors to the very edge of the solar system and beyond. But at that time, the road to the stars was full of uncertainty. Only a few engineers, dedicated and with eyes firmly set on the future, influenced the path taken up later by enterprise and ambition. One of those was Anthony Kunesch (SpaceFlight Vol 63 No 5 p 48) who, along with Ken Gatland and Alan Dixon, designed rockets for interplanetary travel long before the dawn of the Space Age.
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