Lord Camrose Makes Major Donation To Mars Society

Posted by tourdemars to Mars Society at March 25, 2002 12:00 PM

Lord Camrose, a Peer of the English Realm, has made a donation of £19,000 (about $27,000 US) to support the work of the Mars Society. Camrose, who wrote under the name of Adrian Berry for 19 years as Science Correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph, has also written several books about space travel, all of which have been published in the US. The most recent of these is "The Giant Leap: Mankind Heads for the Stars", published by Tor Books. He was one of the journalists in the press room at Houston when Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon. Commenting on his donation, Camrose said; "My main interest was always space. I have attended two annual meetings of the Mars Society, and I was enormously impressed by the energy and enthusiasm of the speakers (and the audience), particularly by you, Robert." [referring to Mars Society President, Robert Zubrin]