I do miss the Satellite data for each month (Phillip Clarke) and loved the Soyuz rocket variant history that lasted for several months,
1-I must admit that I haven't even seen Spaceflight in WHSmith (one of the UK's leading newsagents) for many months. Mind you, the staff never seemed to know where to put it. One month it would be in the transport section alongside the aviation magazines, and the next month it'd be on the other side of the shop with the astronomy journals!2-My only criticism is that on occasion some of the articles are too long. I remember one that ran to 10-12 pages and took up about 25% of the magazine! The Editor would probably have been better splitting that piece across two issues.
I canceled my subscription 10 or more years ago when a sudden drop in picture quality/variety made it not worth the money. Since then I have seen nothing really interesting or new in the few issues I've browsed through at my local newsagent. I want to see historic Russian stuff particularly, but despite the collapse of the USSR nothing's changed on that front, sadly.
I missed this a little earlier, so I'll comment on it now.Quote from: aurora899 on 04/07/2011 09:42 am2-My only criticism is that on occasion some of the articles are too long. I remember one that ran to 10-12 pages and took up about 25% of the magazine! The Editor would probably have been better splitting that piece across two issues.2-I agree with your specific complaint (don't know which issue or article you are referring to). But I'd also point out that this is one area where magazines are still superior to the internet. You can still get long-form articles in newspapers and magazines. The kind of articles that go into a subject in great depth. The internet just doesn't do that stuff. I like Spaceflight because every so often they do a big article with lots of photos and you're not going to find that kind of thing on the internet, or at least not at the same quality.
2-My only criticism is that on occasion some of the articles are too long. I remember one that ran to 10-12 pages and took up about 25% of the magazine! The Editor would probably have been better splitting that piece across two issues.
We are getting trained to be scatterbrained, rather than focus on single topics for long periods of time.