-1980
Writing and hosting global TV series Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious World
-1982
Arthur Clarke writes 2010: Odyssey Two, featuring a joint Soviet-American mission (aboard the Soviet spacecraft Leonov) during the height of Cold War
-1982
Arthur Clarke receives the Marconi Prize for “significant contribution to the advancement of communications for the benefit of mankind through scientific or technological discoveries”
-1982
Arthur Clarke visits the Star City close to Moscow, where he is an honoured guest of cosmonauts and Soviet space administrators
-1983
As part of World Telecommunications Year, Arthur Clarke speaks at the United Nations headquarters in New York on the future of human communications
-1983
Arthur C Clarke Foundation is launched during World Telecommunications Year
-1984
2010: The Year We Make Contact movie, directed by Peter Hyams, is released
-1984
Arthur Clarke is invited by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences to speak at the Vatican on the ‘Impact of Space Exploration on Mankind’
-1985
Hosting global TV series Arthur C Clarke’s World of Strange Powers
-1986
The Songs of Distant Earth is published (Clarke regarded this as his favourite)
-1988
Arthur Clarke diagnosed as having Post-Polio Syndrome, and progressively loses mobility (he was wheelchaired during the last decade of his life)
-1989
Arthur Clarke appointed Chancellor of the International Space University (held it till 2002)