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Why and where from? Much of it seems to have simply been pulled out of thin air from someone who didn't pay any attention to what Sir Arthur C. Clarke or Stanley Kubrick wrote or said in any interviews, or what is in the film 2001 either.
For example, none of the genuine sources (e.g. Clarke) ever said anything about using nuclear fission power in the Discovery One. Clarke was noncommittal on the details, but what was far more likely was thermonuclear fusion power for the Discovery One. Thermonuclear fusion is at least ten times as efficient as fission is, and furthermore, fusion produces inert helium that makes nice, clean rocket exhaust -- along with whatever other water, ammonia, or methane that you put into the engines.
Referring to a "sister ship" going to Saturn to rescue the crew? ABSURD!! As explained in Clarke's novel, the Discovery Two would have been a much larger and more powerful spaceship than the Discovery One (hence taking much longer to build). She would be built with the capability of making the trip all the way to Saturn, picking up the five-man crew of the Discovery One there if they survived, putting everyone back into suspended animation again, and then flying all the way back to low earth orbit again. "Sister ship", my a$$. If the Discovery One were comparable with the USS Consitution of 1812, then the Discovery Two would have been comparable with the British ocean liner Queen Mary of the 1930s. (The one that is kept at Long Beach, California, now, all tied up and anchored down.)
In the novel 2001, Clarke described fully how the Discovery One would fly close by Jupiter to get a gravitational assist to help her get to Saturn, and then once whe was close to Saturn, her goal was to explore the mysterions saturnian moon Iapetus, which was on the line-of-sight of the radio transmission from the TMA-1. Then while the Discovery One was on her way between Jupiter and Saturn was when all of the trouble with the HAL-9000 cropped up. However, Dave Bowman made it to Iapetus anyway, and when he got there, Iapetus had a gigantic Black Monolith on it. That monolith opened up, revealing a stargate, and then Bowman in his EVA pod got sucked into the stargate and onto an incredible voyage across the Universe.
As for those who argue here on this page about the name Discovery One, both the Discovery One and the Discovery Two are mentioned in Clarke's novel 2001, and furthermore, a ground communicator from NASA, addressing the two astronauts, refers to their spaceship as "X-Ray Delta One". For those of you who know nothing of the lingo of NASA and the military, "X-Ray Delta One" refers to the Discovery One. Get it? "Delta" in the phonetic alphabet means "D", and hence "Delta One" is phonetic lingo for Discovery One. Furthermore, an X-ray is a way of probing and discovering things. Hence, "X-Ray Delta One" is a redundant way of saying Discovery One in the standard phonetic alphabet.
98.67.163.16 (talk) 03:05, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
HAL malfunctioned due to a programming conflict between keeping the real purpose of the mission secret from Bowman and Poole, and his basic programming for delivering accurate data. Not a fear of abandonment.
This use to be a full article about the ship from the movie 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. What happened? --Jason Palpatine (talk) 07:40, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Dumb -- Jason Palpatine (talk) 11:03, 13 January 2008 (UTC) This User fails to understand Wikipedia's Systematized Logistical Projection of its Balanced Policy Contingency. (speak your mind | contributions)
I've seen this spaceship, or, better saying, the model that was used for filming, near a parking lot of Fiumicino Airport, Rome, Italy. You should see it with Google maps cliclking here http://maps.google.com/maps/mm?ie=UTF8&hl=it&ll=41.776137,12.248645&spn=0.00276,0.004989&t=h&z=18&om=0 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.48.244.2 (talk) 13:17, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
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The statistics section uses the term "draft" where I think it should use "height."
"Draft" is the distance between the most submerged point (usually the keel) on a ship and the surface of the water. Wjl2 (talk) 20:23, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Where does all this detailed technical information come from? It definitely isn't in either of the 2001/2010 novels, and it isn't in the "Lost Worlds of 2001" book. There's also a continuity problem in that the spaceship uses hydrogen propellant in 2001 and ammonia propellant in 2010. Halmyre (talk) 12:09, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello! I'd all ready sent a link to this article to a friend in England, before I was bothered by the way the name of the ship is stated in it.
"U.S.S." = "United States Ship". Ergo, "United States Spacecraft" will not do here, for that would be another "U.S.S."!
But then I saw below, the "USSC". That's a big clue right there that it is, "United States Space Craft". So, "Space Craft" not "Spacecraft".
(Hmmh. It just occurred to me that "spacecraft" might mean a new crafting hobby, like knitting.)
Is this sort of confusion a hold over about the meaning of the "U.S.S." for the "Starship Enterprise"? Like, is it "United States Ship", "United Space Ship", or "United Star Ship"?
But anyway, if "Discovery One" is indeed meant to be depicted as property of the United States Government, but not the "United States Navy" per se, some might argue that "Spacecraft" could be used as one word rather than two. But that doesn't make sense!
Argh! I feel like I'm trying to explain the difference between "boat" and "ship" here! LeoStarDragon1 (talk) 14:35, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
I wonder how where and how the centrifuge is located and oriented. One can imagine that it is a disk located at midheight of the sphere that makes the command module (mid-height as we can imagine that the "floor" is defined by the pod bay plane, and up is towards the "windows" and down toward the floor.) However, in 2010, you can see the Discovery rotating (after the lose of energy the rotation was transferred to the whole ship) around and axis paralell to the floor and perpendicular to the main ship axis. This means that the centrifuge was a rotating "vertical" disk which rotation axis was perpendicular to the main ship axis, a sort of saw blade as in a saw mill. This means that it was "invading" the pod bay. Am I right? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.229.135.66 (talk) 18:09, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
While Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Discovery One was closed as keep, and some sources were discussed, they were not added to this article, which still fails to tell the readers why this topic is notable (important, significant, etc.). All we say is that it was in the famous movie, how it was designed for the movie/book, and then have a fictional history of what it did in the movie/book. What we need to tell the readers (in order for ((notability)) to be removed) is WHY this ship is considered significant (maybe it inspired things, maybe it became a pop culture icon, etc.). Also ping User:Spinningspark who removed the notability template I've added and which I now restored (I wanted to elaborate on my edit summary more, per WP:BRD). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:34, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Should the article Discovery One continue to carry a notability tag despite its AfD being closed as keep? 15:58, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
The tag was removed following the AfD two years ago but a user has recently insisted on restoring it. Multiple reliable sources were presented at AfD to establish notability. @RL0919, Dmehus, and Atlantic306: pinging original discussion participants. SpinningSpark 16:01, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
I wonder if this adds some useful information: https://www.michellaudio.com/about 46.6.253.28 (talk) 06:03, 30 July 2023 (UTC)