Also nearby is the giant alien monolith that the Discovery was originally sent to investigate. Curnow reactivates the ship and Chandra restarts HAL, who had been deactivated by Bowman before he disappeared. The Soviets believe the burst was simply electrostatic build-up, but Floyd suspects it was a warning to stay away from Europa.Īfter surviving a dangerous braking maneuver around Jupiter's upper atmosphere, the Leonov crew find the abandoned Discovery floating in space. They send an unmanned probe down to Europa to investigate the unusual readings, but just as it finds the source, a mysterious energy burst destroys the probe and its data. Upon arriving at Jupiter, the crew detect signs of life on Jupiter's seemingly barren moon Europa. Floyd, along with Discovery designer Walter Curnow and HAL 9000's creator Dr.
The US government agrees to a joint mission when it is determined that Discovery will crash into Jupiter's moon Io before Discovery Two is ready. While an international dispute causes tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, both nations prepare space missions to determine what happened to the Discovery the Soviet spacecraft Leonov will be ready before the American spacecraft Discovery Two, but the Soviets need American astronauts to help board the Discovery and investigate the malfunction of the ship's sentient computer, HAL 9000, which caused the disaster. Heywood Floyd resigned his position as head of the National Council of Astronautics. It is nine years after the mysterious failure of the Discovery One mission to Jupiter in 2001, which resulted in the deaths of four astronauts and the disappearance of David Bowman blamed for the fiasco, Dr.
Meanwhile David Bowman, now reborn as an Energy Being, is helping the extraterrestrials who created the Monoliths with scouting Jupiter and its moons for primitive lifeforms, hopefully finding one that has potential to turn sentient. Nine years after the Discovery's travel to Jupiter, a joint Soviet-American crew is heading for the mighty gas-planet to find out what happened to the Discovery and its crew.
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