Portal:Spaceflight/Selected biography/October 2009

Arthur C. Clarke (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written in collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick, a collaboration which also produced the film of the same name. Clarke proposed satellite communication systems in 1945 and chaired the British Interplanetary Society from 1947-1950 and again in 1953. Clarke emigrated to Sri Lanka in 1956. (more...)