Wells had already stimulated the British interest in space. In fact science fiction writers like Edgar Rice Burroughs and H.G. They had formed their organization in 1933-at about the time rocket societies were blooming in Germany, Russia, and the United States-dedicating themselves to “the stimulation of public interest in the possibility of interplanetary travel…and the conducting of practical research in connection with such problems.” Their gaze was fixed on the coming age of space travel, and more specifically on the problem of sending a rocket to the moon. Nazi Germany was steadily building up its military machine, and the continent appeared to be slipping inexorably toward another devastating conflict.īut the small band of English eccentrics that made up the BIS had their attention elsewhere. In the summer of 1939, the members of the British Interplanetary Society may have been the only optimists left in Europe.
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