Bowman went on an EVA mission to replace the unit, but after the manual diagnostics, neither Poole or Bowman could find anything wrong with it. Only about a month into their voyage, the HAL 9000 (the on-board artificially intelligent computer) reported a malfunction in the AE-35 unit, the device responsible for maintaining a communication link with Earth. Poole was assigned as one of the crew of Discovery One, as second-in-command, only behind Dave Bowman both men were the only astronauts not in suspended animation. In Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Poole was portrayed by Gary Lockwood.ĭr. He and Commander David Bowman were the only two on board not in suspended animation.
Francis “Frank” Poole was an American astronaut and part of the commanding crew of Discovery One, the first manned mission to Jupiter.
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