"I would have thought that's because such publications are for members only not the wider public."That is true... and that approach was sensible a few decades ago, but it is absolutely useless today. The Planetary Society would be nothing if all it did was mail its Planetary Report out to members, but it has a huge audience online and the influence which comes from that.
Quote from: Phil Stooke on 10/10/2016 02:22 pm"I would have thought that's because such publications are for members only not the wider public."That is true... and that approach was sensible a few decades ago, but it is absolutely useless today. The Planetary Society would be nothing if all it did was mail its Planetary Report out to members, but it has a huge audience online and the influence which comes from that.But they sell that publication as part of its subscription so it might be related to that perhaps.
Quote from: Star One on 07/19/2016 01:04 pmQuote from: Blackstar on 06/13/2016 03:34 pmQuote from: Magic on 06/12/2016 06:44 pmHaven’t seen the Cold War Military Space History (published by the BIS) since August 2006, got any new ones planned?No, I gave up on that. BIS has a lousy web presence and they don't put the journal on the internet. That really restricts the audience. Also, their stuff has stopped showing up in reference collections and elsewhere. For all intents and purposes JBIS does not exist.Also, we get very little feedback in this field. Nobody really seems to care. So it's difficult to develop enthusiasm to do the work when there's no indication that it is appreciated or even read. I still write military space history articles, but I don't have the ambition to try to put together special journal editions on them anymore.I would have thought that's because such publications are for members only not the wider public.The journal also used to go to libraries, but many of them stopped carrying it. BIS really needs to put their publications online. At one time it used to be that writing for them actually was prestigious and meant something. But that is no longer true. And the reality is that somebody can shove an article based entirely upon a half dozen books onto a blog and people will think it is great, and it will get thousands of views, while heavily researched stuff does not get seen because BIS has lousy web presence.
Quote from: Blackstar on 06/13/2016 03:34 pmQuote from: Magic on 06/12/2016 06:44 pmHaven’t seen the Cold War Military Space History (published by the BIS) since August 2006, got any new ones planned?No, I gave up on that. BIS has a lousy web presence and they don't put the journal on the internet. That really restricts the audience. Also, their stuff has stopped showing up in reference collections and elsewhere. For all intents and purposes JBIS does not exist.Also, we get very little feedback in this field. Nobody really seems to care. So it's difficult to develop enthusiasm to do the work when there's no indication that it is appreciated or even read. I still write military space history articles, but I don't have the ambition to try to put together special journal editions on them anymore.I would have thought that's because such publications are for members only not the wider public.
Quote from: Magic on 06/12/2016 06:44 pmHaven’t seen the Cold War Military Space History (published by the BIS) since August 2006, got any new ones planned?No, I gave up on that. BIS has a lousy web presence and they don't put the journal on the internet. That really restricts the audience. Also, their stuff has stopped showing up in reference collections and elsewhere. For all intents and purposes JBIS does not exist.Also, we get very little feedback in this field. Nobody really seems to care. So it's difficult to develop enthusiasm to do the work when there's no indication that it is appreciated or even read. I still write military space history articles, but I don't have the ambition to try to put together special journal editions on them anymore.
Haven’t seen the Cold War Military Space History (published by the BIS) since August 2006, got any new ones planned?
Gold plated monster – JWST nears completionDwayne A. Day took time to check out the latest assembly and test stages for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope at the Goddard Space Flight Center, finding it entering the next phase of tests.
The images of the model of the ISS are pretty impressive.