Chandra, reactivates the computer to ascertain the cause of his earlier aberrant behaviour.
Mission crewmember and HAL 9000's creator, Dr. The Leonov survives a dangerous aerobraking around Jupiter and arrives at Discovery. The only survivor, Professor Chang radios the story to the Leonov it is presumed that he dies when his spacesuit air supply runs out. The daring mission of the Tsien ends in failure, when it is destroyed by an indigenous life-form on Europa.
The Leonov crewmembers think the Chinese are on a one-way trip due to its speed, but Floyd surmises that due to the large water content of Europa they intend to land there and use the water content to refuel. However, a Chinese space station rockets out of Earth orbit, revealing itself to be the interplanetary spacecraft Tsien, also aimed at Jupiter. The Soviets have an advanced new " Sakharov" drive which will propel them to Jupiter ahead of the American Discovery Two, so Floyd is assigned to the Leonov crew. They hypothesize that much of this information is locked away on the now-abandoned Discovery One. Ī joint Soviet-American crew, including Heywood Floyd from 2001, on the Soviet spaceship Leonov (named after the cosmonaut) arrives to discover what went wrong with the earlier mission, to investigate the Monolith in orbit around the planet, and to resolve the disappearance of David Bowman. The story is set nine years after the failure of the Discovery One mission to Jupiter. 2010: Odyssey Two follows the adventure of Heywood Floyd to Jupiter, to investigate the Discovery.
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