2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY-VISION VERSUS REALITY AT THIRTY
- Paper ID
IAF-98-IAA.2.1.02
- author
- company
Science Advisory Council U.S. Space & Rocket Center
- country
U.S.A.
- year
1998
- abstract
When I first became involved as advisor to the film in January 1965, the Mercury one- man satellite program had been completed and the two-man Gemini program was about to begin. We were then about half way along the road to the first manned expeditions to the Moon. Moreover, plans even then were being made for ambitious post-Apollo missions— back to the Moon and on to Mars were the watchwords. When my colleague Harry Lange and I arrived in New York from Huntsville, Alabama to help Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke plan the vehicular and other scientific and technological sequences in 2001, we were naturally inspired by our mentor Wemher von Braun, director of the NASA- Marshall Space Center where we had both worked since its inception in 1960 (and previous to that at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency whose Development Operations Division he also had directed).