Spaceflight Magazine

[saturnapollo]

I stopped writing for Spaceflight after 25 years because they do not show professional respect for their writers.

I left the BIS years ago, but was asked a few years ago if they could use my ISS model article from the IPMS magazine. I knew I wouldn't get paid, my only stipulation being that I get a copy of the issue my article appeared in. It took two and half years and repeated e-mail requests and finally an intervention by Mat Irvine to get me a copy!

Keith

[Star One]

I stopped writing for Spaceflight after 25 years because they do not show professional respect for their writers.

I left the BIS years ago, but was asked a few years ago if they could use my ISS model article from the IPMS magazine. I knew I wouldn't get paid, my only stipulation being that I get a copy of the issue my article appeared in. It took two and half years and repeated e-mail requests and finally an intervention by Mat Irvine to get me a copy!

Keith

Matt Irvine the legendary model maker who worked on Doctor Who amongst others back in the day including the spacecraft from Warriors Gate which I still remember him showing off on Saturday Swapshop.

[aurora899]

I know they are referring to a different kind of "respect," but I stopped writing for Spaceflight after 25 years because they do not show professional respect for their writers.

I must admit that although I often upload the new covers here, I haven't bought a copy of Spaceflight magazine for many, many months! I may pick up the latest (December 2021) issue, partly because of the article on Russian female cosmonauts and partly just to see what the thing is like now.

[Blackstar]

my only stipulation being that I get a copy of the issue my article appeared in. It took two and half years and repeated e-mail requests and finally an intervention by Mat Irvine to get me a copy!

They used to provide 4 complimentary copies of each issue that an author wrote for. That was their policy when I started writing for them around 1995 or so and it was consistent until around 2018-19. A few years ago they stopped doing that. I never got a clear explanation from them. But I wrote dozens of articles for them over two decades, and their attitude now is we want you to work for nothing, not even a thank you. They pay their electrical company, their plumber, their printer, their editor, and their staff, but they won't even provide a professional courtesy for their writers.

[saturnapollo]

Well, you received more than I ever did. I wrote a couple of articles in the late 80's and 90's when I was a Fellow of the society and I never received any extra copies other than my subscription copy. Their memberships subs were never exactly cheap, so not as if they were short of funds to pay their contributors to Spaceflight.

This time the Editor approached the IPMS to reprint my ISS model article. They agreed, as did I, as I said on the basis I at least received a copy of the magazine as I like to keep a record of my articles which are published. Thereafter a long uphill struggle.  I did wonder who was doing who a favour.

Keith

[aurora899]

A preview of the January cover but the BIS website has yet to be updated.

[Oersted]

Isn't that a much more SpaceX-centric front page than usual?

[LtCmdr]

Don't ask what BIS can do for You but what You can do for BIS 
Between 1994 and 2022 I have written 115 articles for BIS Spaceflight and Space Chronicle combined

[Finn Mac Doreahn]

Don't ask what BIS can do for You but what You can do for BIS 
Between 1994 and 2022 I have written 115 articles for BIS Spaceflight and Space Chronicle combined

Who are you? I might have read some of your stuff.

[aurora899]

A preview of the February cover. The BIS website doesn't appear to have been updated yet for the 2022 issues.

[LtCmdr]

Just got a preview of BIS Space Chronicle magazine 2022/2 out by March 4, 2022... a good read !

[aurora899]

I notice that the BIS still haven't updated their on-line "shop" to include any of the 2022 editions of these magazines yet.

[Blackstar]

Just got a preview of BIS Space Chronicle magazine 2022/2 out by March 4, 2022... a good read !

What's in it?

[Finn Mac Doreahn]

A preview of the February cover. The BIS website doesn't appear to have been updated yet for the 2022 issues.

Didn’t they use that cover art a few years ago?

[LtCmdr]

@BlackStar
Among other, the start of the article series " Of Time and Space " ...
Also see this topic on wrist watches used in spaceflight:
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=55748.0

 

[aurora899]

A preview of the March 2022 cover.

[Blackstar]

Is there a full index to Spaceflight articles?

I wrote an article on the early origins of the weather satellite program--even before Tiros--and I need to figure out what issue it was. Probably sometime in the 2003-2008 timeframe. I remember labeling it "part 1," but I never got around to writing part 2.

[daedalus1]

I've got those issues and they have an index in the December edition. I'll look it up in the next few days if you still need it.

[Blackstar]

I've got those issues and they have an index in the December edition. I'll look it up in the next few days if you still need it.

Did they run them in December? Let me look in my December editions. I was hoping there was a master list online somewhere.

[Blackstar]

Thanks for your help. I found it. August 2005. I doubt I still have the original computer file. I may have to scan this and use OCS. I don't have a pdf of the 2005 issue.