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When I was 15 I caught 2001: A Space Odyssey on the television, and spent the rest of the day trying to work out why it didn't bore me.

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And fear not frugal adventurers: the cost to book your own space odyssey, depending on which option you choose, is slowly descending to the earth's atmosphere.

The MIT professor invented vital research equipment and consulted on Stanley Kubrick's» 2001: A Space Odyssey.»

That year, Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey featured a Pan Am spaceship, while the airline's Asian fleet ferried soldiers on active duty in Vietnam to Japan or to Hawaii for their R&R leave.

Rather, we are on a spaceship hurtling into the unknown, just like the solitary passenger in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey after he had tried to regain control by dismantling his spaceship's computer.

Their bus windows were blacked out, so the bus looked like the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey, just this black blob on four wheels, and people were running, like the apes in the movie, just wanting to touch it.

The scarps directly expose bright glimpses into vast underground ice previously detected with spectrometers on NASA's Mars Odyssey (MRO) orbiter, with ground - penetrating radar instruments on MRO and on the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter, and with observations of fresh impact craters that uncover subsurface ice.

However, researchers have stepped back to look at the bigger picture through data collected from the 2001: Mars Odyssey, named in reference to the science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, «2001: A Space Odyssey,» and found a different chemical on Mars may be key.

Venkat has found bugs in the spacecraft - assembly facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida; on hardware and in drinking water from the International Space Station; in circuit boards destined for an upcoming mission to Europa; and on the metal surface of the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars since October 2001.

hal 9000, from 2001: A Space Odyssey, was her opposite, a rogue computer bent on achieving its own ends.

A voice - operated computer assistant is set to be used in space for the first time on Monday — its operators hope it proves more reliable than «HAL», the treacherous speaking computer in the movie 2001: A Space Odyspace for the first time on Monday — its operators hope it proves more reliable than «HAL», the treacherous speaking computer in the movie 2001: A Space OdySpace Odyssey.

That might send shivers down the spine of anyone who watched HAL turn on its human controllers in Stanley Kubrick's «2001: A Space Odyssey».

ARTHUR C. Clarke was hooked on a toyshop game using 12 pieces of plastic, which he featured in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Before the end of the decade men would walk on the moon, and the future, depicted most explicitly — and, we all thought, realistically — in 2001: A Space Odyssey, seemed so bright we needed shades.

Ideas abounded: using ion engines to ferry up the components of a moon base; beaming power to robotic rovers on the Martian moon Phobos; attaching high - power Hall effect thrusters to the International Space Station (ISS) and putting it on a Mars cycler orbit; preplacing chemical rocket boosters along an interplanetary trajectory in advance so astronauts could pick them up along the way; using exploration pods like those in 2001: A Space Odyssey rather than space suits; instead of sending astronauts to an asteroid, bringing a (very small) asteroid to astronauts at the space staSpace Station (ISS) and putting it on a Mars cycler orbit; preplacing chemical rocket boosters along an interplanetary trajectory in advance so astronauts could pick them up along the way; using exploration pods like those in 2001: A Space Odyssey rather than space suits; instead of sending astronauts to an asteroid, bringing a (very small) asteroid to astronauts at the space staSpace Odyssey rather than space suits; instead of sending astronauts to an asteroid, bringing a (very small) asteroid to astronauts at the space staspace suits; instead of sending astronauts to an asteroid, bringing a (very small) asteroid to astronauts at the space staspace station.

Because the program's architecture allows users to contribute new objects, many community members have concocted add - ons that re-create fictional worlds from sci - fi lore: the planet Tatooine from Star Wars, for instance, and the space station from 2001: A Space Odyspace station from 2001: A Space OdySpace Odyssey.

Clarke had invited us to his room at the historic Hotel Chelsea, where in the mid-1960s he worked on his best - known piece, 2001: A Space Odyssey.

ON THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN IN THE PACIFIC BASIN, A 10 - YEAR ODYSSEY WILL CULMINATE IN THE CAPTURE OF FIRST LIGHT FOR A TELESCOPE THAT MAY SURPASS SPACE - BASED OBSERVATORIES

Herbert Funsten is recognized as a world - renowned experimental space scientist and has led science instruments on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) and Van Allen Probes missions and national security instruments on the DOE's SABRS Validation Experiment (SAVE) and Space and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System (SABRS) payloads, while also participating in NASA's Cassini, Two Wide - angle Imaging Neutral - atom Spectrometers (TWINS), Deep Space 1, Mars Odyssey, and Imager for Magnetopause - to - Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) missspace scientist and has led science instruments on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) and Van Allen Probes missions and national security instruments on the DOE's SABRS Validation Experiment (SAVE) and Space and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System (SABRS) payloads, while also participating in NASA's Cassini, Two Wide - angle Imaging Neutral - atom Spectrometers (TWINS), Deep Space 1, Mars Odyssey, and Imager for Magnetopause - to - Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) missSpace and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System (SABRS) payloads, while also participating in NASA's Cassini, Two Wide - angle Imaging Neutral - atom Spectrometers (TWINS), Deep Space 1, Mars Odyssey, and Imager for Magnetopause - to - Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) missSpace 1, Mars Odyssey, and Imager for Magnetopause - to - Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) missions.

An odyssey of exploration began on 25 April 1990, when Steve Hawley gingerly pulled Discovery's robot arm away from the Hubble Space Telescope.

2001: A Space Odyssey appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2.20:1 on this single - sided, double - layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.

Back on topic: I've never read any Stanley Kubrick biographies or filmographies and don't know how Kubrick came to casting Dullea in 2001: A Space Odyssey... or if a viewing of The Hoodlum Priest might have sparked anything in Kubrick's mind.

Notoriously baffling yet oddly compelling, 2001: A Space Odyssey essentially follows two astronauts (Keir Dullea's Dave Bowman and Gary Lockwood's Frank Poole) as they embark on a quest into the farthest reaches of the known galaxy.

Bonus: DVD One: • Audio Commentary with Actors Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood • Trailer DVD Two: • «2001: The Making of a Myth» Documentary • «Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001» Featurette • «Visions of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001» Featurette • «2001: A Space Odyssey - A Look Behind the Future» Featurette • «What Is Out There?»

On a scale of Excellent, Good, Fair, and Poor, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Two - Disc Special Edition) rates: Movie: Excellent Video: Excellent Sound: Excellent Supplements: See above Packaging: Keep case Reviewed: October 27, 2007

2001: A Space Odyssey is one of cinema's most eternally beguiling films, with a seemingly endless amount of theories bandied about on what it all means.

But there's one Science Fiction film that towers above all others of the genre, as well as all other films, and that is Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, which Warner Brothers barely released in time to actually be seen on a big screen during the relevant year.

Giddily recycling everything from «2001: A Space Odyssey» and «The Matrix» to yakuza actioners and National Geographic documentaries, it's a garish, trippy, wildly uneven and finally quite disarming piece of work, graced by a moment - to - moment unpredictability that will pique audience curiosity but may put off those who prefer their summer movies on the more conventional side.

Some have made some comparisons to the work of Stanley Kubrick or Nicolas Roeg, but while there are certain visual nods here and there, I think expectations should be tempered that Under the Skin is on the level of, say, 2001: A Space Odyssey or The Man Who Fell to Earth in either scope or conceptual execution.

To create these sequences, Malick collaborated with the great visual effects artist Douglas Trumbull, who made his name with Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and went on to Oscar nominations for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), and Blade Runner (1982).

I've got family coming into town this afternoon, and since this week's poll had three runaway winners in «2001: A Space Odyssey,» «The Godfather» and «Pulp Fiction,» and I doubt three more hours will close the gap on the stragglers (poor «Jurassic Park»), I think it's time for a new installment.

However, they do make great «wallpaper» cinema: films to turn on in the background during a cocktail party to entertain your guests (especially fun when Thunderbirds are Go casts aside narrative and indulges in a prolonged dream sequence at a night club in space — call it a camp precursor to the Stargate sequence in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odysspace — call it a camp precursor to the Stargate sequence in Kubrick's 2001: A Space OdysSpace Odyssey).

series launched at the Los Angeles Theatre on June 14, 2014 with Stephany Folsom's «1969: A Space Odyssey.»

Visual effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull (notable for his work on 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner and Close Encounters of the Third Kind), made his directorial debut with this eco-themed sci - fi classic

The best comic - book movie in a long time, though based on no comic, Lucy is a film that mates classic Besson with Quentin Tarantino in a go at the mystical, world - solving vision found in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life.

Also noticeably absent were Angelina Jolie for her efforts on the World War II drama «Unbroken,» Christopher Nolan for his space odyssey «Interstellar,» and Bennett Miller for the true crime story «Foxcatcher.»

On closer inspection, however, it looks exactly like a rip - off of various deep - space science fiction touchstones, namely 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien and Event Horizon (we'll end it there, but we could go on...On closer inspection, however, it looks exactly like a rip - off of various deep - space science fiction touchstones, namely 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien and Event Horizon (we'll end it there, but we could go onspace science fiction touchstones, namely 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien and Event Horizon (we'll end it there, but we could go onSpace Odyssey, Alien and Event Horizon (we'll end it there, but we could go on...on...).

Though he's only in one scene, and mostly unrecognizable in the «videophone» we see him on, Keir Dullea of 2001: A Space Odyssey is an exciting, if almost lost accent as Tyler's father.

by Walter Chaw A seminal year for film, 1968: Once Upon a Time in the West, Rosemary's Baby, Planet of the Apes, Night of the Living Dead, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Barbarella, If..., Targets, Faces, Danger: Diabolik... and, some would say, Mel Brooks's The Producers, a film back in the limelight thanks to the record - breaking, award - winning Broadway play on which it's based now coming out as an extraordinarily ill - advised feature film of its own.

Solaris is primarily recommended for those who love science fiction in its purest of forms, like 2001: A Space Odyssey or Blade Runner, and especially for those who are familiar with the novel and previous film but are curious to see another take on the subject.

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Making a movie about A.I. isn't exactly a novel premise, but Garland excels at putting a fresh spin on familiar material, and he doesn't disappoint with «Ex Machina,» which draws inspiration from other genre classics like «2001: A Space Odyssey» and «Frankenstein.»

2001: A Space Odyssey, Adam West, Angry Red Planet, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brian De Palma, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, John Carter, Mars, Mars Attacks, Mission to Mars, Ray Bradbury, Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Taylor Kitsch, The Martian Chronicles, Total Recall

«2001: A Space Odyssey»: Stanley Kubrick's 1968 classic is back, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, in a new 70 - millimeter print.

Gary Lockwood in a scene from «2001: A Space Odyssey,» a classic from 1968 reissued in a new 70 mm print on its 50th anniversary.

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For science fiction fans, Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood (2001: A Space Odyssey) will be on hand.

As the group collects their bounty, Rocket Raccoon (Bradley Cooper) willfully angers their uppity employer (Elizabeth Debicki) and our quirky quintet is unwittingly off on a brand new life - or - death space odyssey.

These, and other scenes, go on for the rest of the film, and end at his death, in which McQueen brilliantly pays homage to an unlikely film source, Stanley Kubrick's magisterial 2001: A Space Odyssey.