2001 Series - Discovery 1 - Partial Model

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The Discovery 1 was the fictional manned American spacecraft featured in the 1968 movie 2001- A Space Odyssey, launched in 2001 to the planet Jupiter to investigate a radio signal sent there from the mysterious 3 million year old Tyco Magnetic Anomaly-One (TMA-1) monolith discovered buried on the Moon in 1999. At 364 feet in length, the ship consists of a 40 foot in diameter spherical Command Module encompassing the control deck, a 1/6 g centrifugal crew habitation module, an EVA Pod bay housing (3) Grumman DC-5 EVA craft, and the HAL-9000 computer control system, connected by an extended horizontal spine system comprised of 30 cryogenic fuel storage modules and the ships communications module, to the ships Cavradyne Gaseous Core nuclear engine complex. This model represents the filmed version of Discovery 1 as it approaches Jupiter but includes only the spacecraft without the separate pod bay or eva pod models to keep the size within 3D warehouse size limits. For the model including these missing features, see my Discovery 1 - Full model. Again, the model is based on the original 15 ft. filming model, and incorporates elements derived, in part from various internet model versions of Discovery, and is highly detailed thanks in great part to model components contributed by cyberia_23 and model maker from the 3D Warehouse. Model Background Modeling the Discovery 1 spacecraft presents a challenge since Stanley Kubrick ordered both the 54 foot and 15 foot Discovery shooting models, along with all other models, sets and plans from the movie destroyed once production completed, leaving only a small number of pre and post production stills, along with the movie itself, as direct references, all of which provide only limited views of the ship. And while there are numerous print and online references for the ship, these vary in detail and accuracy, leaving creation of any Discovery model open to various interpretations as far as details and even overall ship’s size are concerned. This is especially true since in many Sci-Fi films, there are often size discrepancies between external and internal models and sets. Based on photos of the original 15 ft. shooting model, details taken from print and internet sources, and comparisons of the Discovery EVA pod (which I’ve designated as 7.7 ft. in diameter based on various sources) exiting from the Command module, I’ve created this model and set the ships dimensions as 364 ft. in length with a CommanModule diameter of 40 ft. #Kubrick, #2001, #Discovery, #HAL9000s, #space, #sci_fi, #moon, #Jupiter, #monolith, #Bowman, #Poole,