Discovery One

The Discovery One is a fictional spacecraft featured in the "Space Odyssey" franchise as envisioned by author Arthur C. Clarke. It first appeared in the 1968 Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey as well as the 2001: A Space Odyssey novel, which was published to coincide with the release of the film. The ship also appeared in the 1984 sequel 2010: The Year We Make Contact, the Clarke novel 2010: Odyssey Two as well as the 2010 comic book limited series by Marvel Comics.

History
The Discovery One was built for a mission called Project: Jupiter - the first manned mission to the solar system's fifth planet. Construction began in the year 1996 and by 2001, the mission was well underway. The plan was to make the journey to the gas giant and use its gravitational field to slingshot the ship even farther across the galaxy. The Discovery One was not intended to make a return voyage, but would be abandoned upon reaching a predetermined destination, at which point the crew would be picked up by a secondary ship, the Discovery Two. The initial journey was expected to take ten months.

Crew

 * Dave Bowman - First captain
 * Frank Poole - Deputy commander
 * Charles Hunter - Astrophysicist
 * Jack Kimball - Geophysicist
 * Peter Whitehead - Survey team leader
 * Victor Kaminsky - Survey team leader

Notes & Trivia

 * The shape of the Discovery One is intended to be reminiscent of the bone that Moon-Watcher hurls into the air at the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey.