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The British Interplanetary Society (BIS) founded in 1933 , is the oldest organisation in the world whose aim is exclusively to support and promote Astronautics and Space Exploration . It is a Non-profit Organisation with headquarters in London and is financed by members' contributions. BIS publishes the academic journal '' Journal Of The British Interplanetary Society '' and the magazine '' Spaceflight ''. In the late 1930s, the group devised a project of landing people on the moon by a multistage rocket, each stage of which would be comprised of many narrow solid-fuel rockets. Their lander was gumdrop-shaped but otherwise quite like the Lunar Module. As it was considered that the cabin would have to rotate to provide artificial gravity by centrifugal force, the BIS is considered to have invented the first instrument for space travel - a navigation mechanism which would cancel out the rotating view. The BIS was preceded by the American Interplanetary Society (founded 1930 ), the German VfR , and Soviet rocket research groups, but unlike these it never became absorbed into a national industry. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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