FREDERICK I. ORDWAY III and "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY"

Rocketry pioneer Frederick Ordway (1927 - 2014) was the man most responsible for the designs and verisimilitude of the vehicles, control panels etc. in Kubrick and Clarke's 1968 masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey". In this brief excerpt from our 2012 film "2001: The Science of Futures Past" he reveals some of the secrets. (The full documentary, along with Adam K. Johnson's Ordway-collection-based book "2001: The Lost Science", is available through www.cgpublishing.com)

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May Mr. Ordway rest in peace

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This is awesome! I'll have to get this documentary.

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2021 saw his name in the credits.

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I love Hollywood space travel

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Fred wrote quite the disappointed diatribe against the picture once it reached theaters. Kubrick fooled them and made the movie with his own agenda.

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But did derivations outweigh and will they outlast THE CONQUEST OF SPACE?

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Welp, I just figured out I’m related by marriage to Fredrick Ordway… guess what I’m going to say about me from now on

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Crypto-confessions of science's sorcerers.