Footage from an episode of Sky at Night in 1963, showing an interview between Patrick Moore and Arthur C. Clarke.

Caption: "Many of the early Sky at Night programmes were destroyed or lost from the BBC library. Recently this early and very rare programme from 1963 with Arthur C Clarke, was discovered in an African TV station. Patrick and Arthur were both members of the British Interplanetary Society and here they discuss bases on the Moon and Mars. Arthur C Clarke made very few interviews, so this really is a broadcasting gem- once lost, but now found."

• The Sky at Night 1963 - Bases on the Moon -- BBC
• Arthur C. Clarke predicted Russians would put first man on Moon -- Guardian
• The perils of spaceflight prediction -- Jeff Foust, Space Review

The European consortium BOOSTER Space Industries is developing an air-launched suborbital spaceplane:

Small from BOOSTER on Vimeo.

The founder of BOOSTER, Dr. James Murray, is a former consultant to Reaction Engines, and former head of Space Development at the Belgian firm Techspace Aero, part of the SAFRAN propulsion group.

Cabin design for the BOOSTER spaceplane will be undertaken by Andy Elson Engineering, designers of the original 'Magic Dragon' capsule for SpaceX.

(Source: UK Space Agency)

Astrium UK has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) as prime contractor for the Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite (S5p), a mission to monitor atmospheric chemistry. UK industry will deliver the mission platform and significant elements of the instrumention.

"This is a pilot edition of a proposed bi-monthly news/magazine programme from the British Interplanetary Society. Comments/observations welcomed."

(Source: UK Space Agency Youtube channel)

The UK Space Agency has posted a number of videos featuring an interview with Tim Peake, the UK's first ESA astronaut trainee.

Videos from Excalibur Almaz open day at Jurby, Isle of Man on June 17th.

Corporate promo video:

CNN's Ayesha Durgahee attends the first UK Space Conference, where businesses look to space market opportunities.

(Source: DeltaVee Media)

A recording of a lecture given by Kelvin Long at the British Interplanetary Society on 2nd March, on current progress with Project Icarus, a project to design an interstellar spacecraft: