In the novel 3001: The Final Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke tells us that Frank Poole's boyhood hometown was Flagstaff, Arizona, and that his visits to the Lowell Observatory there had sparked his interest in astronautics.
In this, HAL 9000, a computer controlling spaceship Discovery One, bound for Jupiter, discovers a plot to deactivate it by the mission astronauts Dave Bowman and Frank Poole through lip reading their conversations.
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His famous game (see article Poole versus HAL 9000) was featured in the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey (the astronaut Frank Poole is seen playing chess with the HAL 9000 supercomputer).