50 years 2001: A Space Odyssey

[Rhinocrates]

In 2001, Discovery looked physics free in that--where are the fuel tanks?

Concept sketches had large fuel tanks and radiators. I gather that in the final version, the 'vertebra' segments had a couple of smaller tanks in each prism-shaped module. The story of the radiators is that a test model was built with them but they were deleted because the audience might confuse them with wings.

The red-orange sketch closely matches Clarke's description in the book, with the radiators forming a narrow 'V.'

 

[martinbayer]

That's what I meant by "physics free"

Mike drop - I'm out.