Dr. Heywood Floyd, head of the National Council of Astronautics is a prominent character in 2001: A Space Odyssey. He also appears in 2010: Odyssey Two as one of the astronauts who returns to Jupiter to find out what happened. Story follows the movie plot, Discovery travels to Jupiter. Part 2: 2002.

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Heywood Floyd was in the Space Station awaiting his flight to the Moon when he bumped into his old friend Dr. Elena Galikova.

"Elena, wonderful to see you again, it has been too long. Are you going up or down?"

"Good to see you again Heywood. I am going back down, I have a meeting in Moscow and then two months leave with my husband, I have not seen Ivan for six months. How about you Heywood, up or down?"

"Back up to Clavius, the Smith Commission wants to talk to the people up there and see TMA-1, they want to talk to me yet again."

"I am sorry Heywood, nasty business. The whole world should have known about this from the start. Mind you, I suspect the Russian government wouldn't have acted any differently if we had found it."

Floyd looked out of the window of the space station where he could see the shell of "Discovery II". The construction of the second manned ship to Jupiter had been halted.

"I agree with your suspicion Elena, do you think we will ever go back to Jupiter?"

"When we go back we should do it together."

There were a few minutes of silence before Elena spoke again.

"So how are those wonderful little girls of yours?"

"Not so little now, they are both growing up. They miss their mother."

"Have you ever thought of remarrying?"

"Who knows, I just want to get this Smith Commission out of my hair and get on with my life."

Elena hugged Heywood "Time to go, good luck to you."

"Thank you Elena, best wishes to Ivan."

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They only person to get anything like the same amount of scrutiny from the Smith Commission as Dr. Floyd was Dr. Chandra, the creator of the HAL-9000 computer. Chandra strongly refuted the suggestion of one of the commission that HAL had deliberately killed the crew of Discovery. He blamed the conflicting orders given to HAL. Chandra also said the only way to fully determine what happened would be to return to Discovery. When Chandra was asked if he would be prepared to return to Jupiter to turn HAL back on he said he would go tomorrow.