Wednesday / 3 January 2001	Year 18 Number 1
Arthur C. Clarke Says Moon First, Then Mars; In a recent interview focusing on the arrival of 2001, Clarke believes a settlement on the Moon or Mars is not far off. "I feel we should establish ourselves on the Moon and make our mistakes because that's only a couple of days away," said Clarke, "If anything goes wrong on Mars, it's nine months back." Clarke, the author of over 50 future-oriented books, has a track record of sucessfully forecasting scientific developments. Some of his predictions include satellite communications, cellular phones space stations, men on the Moon and the Internet. Space pioneer Fredrick Durant, who ran the American Rocket Society in the 50's and helped start the IAF, concurs. "I personally believe we should go back to the Moon and have a base and work on it," said Durant, who also noted that "[2001: A Space Odyssey] is probably the finest science fiction film made to date." FINDS Grants Research Awards in Extreme Space Competition; The results of the Extreme Space Competition funded by the Foundation for the International Non-Governmental Development of Space (FINDS) were announced at the recent Space Frontier Conference 9: Odyssey's Horizon on 2 October, 2000 in Los Angeles, CA. The 1st prize of $10,000 went to Dominic Papincau of McGill University for his research on radiation resistance of organisms during a long duration space flight. Jay Thomas and Steven Neurauter of the University of Illinois won the $5,000 2nd prize for their paper on commercial development of the Sun-Earth Lagrange points, which could be used to go to the Moon, Mars, asteroids and beyond. The competition was organized and judged by the Space Studies Institute.
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