Heywood Floyd's Journey to Clavius

This video demonstrates World of 2001: A Space Odyssey's ability to simulate Heywood Floyd's journey from Earth to the Tycho Magnetic Anomaly - One. Beginning with scenes described in Arthur C. Clarke's novel - Floyd's flight from Washington, and the launch from KSC of an Orion III spaceplane atop its fly-back booster - the video then depicts scenes familiar from the film. Note that some artistic license is used here. As a result of Orbiter's accurate ephemeris data the "Floyd's Journey" scenarios included in WO2001 depict a landing at Clavius base during lunar night, with sun rise over TMA-1 at a slightly later date than commonly supposed in 2001:ASO timelines.

This flight simulation was made with Orbiter 2005 (a free space flight simulator) by Alain Hosking. The background music is Richard Strauss' "On the Beautiful, Blue Danube, waltz for orchestra" and "Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30", and both were used in the Stanley Kubrick motion picture, "2001: A Space Odyssey."

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• space flight simulation
• Heywood Floyd
• 2001 A Space Odyssey
• Richard Strauss

[SimulationGuy121]

this doesn't work on my orbiter...none of the textures for world of 2001 show on the screen...the ships are invisible....does anyone know how to fix this???

[TalksWithDirt]

I love the Boeing 20707 to the launch facility. Nice design on the flyback, you read the book I see. :) I saw this on the big screen here in Tucson at the Fox Theater what a wonderful experience.

[zathras9now]

Really cool!! I designed an almost identical Orion III launcher many years back. Cool to see it in action!

[seekortry]

Is this portable to Unix/Linux or is completely tied up with win32? How decoupled is the code from the win32 classes and functions?

[snoopysam1987]

I hate WMG!

[RideMyBMW]

Nice fu&%in work DRMIDI!!! Dr.Floyd would be darn proud!