SPACE NEWS
BIS SPACE SUIT
he National Space Centre in Leicester has recently opened an exhibition on Britain’s contribution to the space race, with a recreation of a lunar space suit designed by two members of the British Interplanetary Society (BIS) in 1949 as its centrepiece. The BIS was founded in 1933 for people to consider and plan for interplanetary exploration and included luminaries such as Arthur C Clarke and Patrick Moore (see ). Harry Ross headed up the committee considering the possibility of a lunar landing and he collaborated with fellow BIS member Ralph Smith to come up with a suit for the job, publishing the design in the society’s journal. Until now, that was as far as the designs went but the National Space Centre commissioned model maker Stephen Wisdom to construct a life-size suit from the plans using only materials available in the
