Welcome to the pages of the URANOS Club. The Club is a group of people interested in the development of human civilization and its expansion into extraterrestrial space. In our opinion, expansion of humanity into space is a prerequisite for further development, or even survival, of our civilization. We are afraid, however, that recognition of this necessity is still infrequent among people, which may constitute a bigger problem than possible technological difficulties. Hence, it is necessary to constantly remind people that the world does not end at the borders of Earth's atmosphere. As it was formulated by Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky: "Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever" When navigating through the site you may start from:    Contents A list of all pages of the Club site, including advance notices of pages in preparation,   ... or jump directly to one of the more important pages:    Manifesto The Club Founding Declaration: why the Club was founded and what it is all about,  Activity Information about forms of Club activity and possibilities of action offered to people supporting the Club aims, including information about our e-mail list <klub@uranos.eu.org>,  Links  An annotated collection of selected links to the WWW pages related to the Club aims and scope,  POLAND The broad section devoted to Polish contribution to space exploration, including:   What to do in Poland : on the activities in the field of space exploration possible in Poland,   Polish space institutions : the listing of most important Polish institutions and companies engaged in space exploration,   Polish space organizations : the listing of most important Polish organizations and societies connected with space exploration,  GUIDE  Settlers Guide to the Solar System: a description of conditions and possibilities of colonization and building of permanent manned bases in various places of our System, including:   Mars : The section devoted to exploration of Mars.   Moon : The section devoted to exploration of the Moon.   Welcome! [NOTE: Best viewed in a portrait layout (with window width fitted to the divider lines).] Uranos - according to Greek mythology: Personification of the heavens, husband (according to Hesiod - son) of Gaia (Earth), father of Titans, Cyclopes and Hekatoncheires. The first king of Atlants, whom he taught a civilized way of life (according to Diodoros). The activities of our Club are aimed mostly at the Poles and people of Polish origin around the world. However, since encouragement, advice, and any other help from the rest of the world are also gladly received and greatly appreciated by us, and not all Poles around the world necessarily understand Polish, we maintain also English versions of some pages of our site. For your convenience, links to pages currently having only Polish versions are marked by the small icon. Site maintained by "URANOS Group" Comments, opinions: kontakt@uranos.eu.org On the Web since: 18.VIII.1998 Last update of the site: 3.I.2005