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.
Plot Ī joint Soviet-US crew, including Heywood Floyd, on the Soviet spaceship Alexei Leonov (named after the cosmonaut) arrives to discover what went wrong with the earlier mission, to investigate the monolith in orbit around Jupiter, and to resolve the disappearance of David Bowman. The story is set nine years after the failure of the Discovery One mission to Jupiter. The novel was adapted for the screen by Peter Hyams and released as a film in 1984. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1983. The mission has several objectives, including salvaging the spaceship Discovery and investigating the mysterious "monolith" discovered by Dave Bowman in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Set in the year 2010, the plot centres on a joint Soviet-US mission aboard the Soviet spacecraft The Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov. It is the sequel to his 1968 novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, though Clarke changed some elements of the story to align with the film version of 2001. 2010: Odyssey Two is a 1982 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C.
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