David Shire - Nova/New Worlds (Includes Strauss's "Thus Spake Zarathustra")

This is a track by film composer and songwriter David Shire, from the soundtrack to the 1984 film "2010: The Year We Make Contact", Peter Hyams's underrated sequel to Stan Kubrick's classic sci-fi film, "2001: A Space Odyssey", both based on the novels by Arthur C. Clarke. It also includes part of Richard Strauss's "Thus Spake Zarathustra", which, as in "2001", is used as the film's main theme.
The film stars Roy Scheider as Dr. Heywood Floyd (taking on the role from William Sylvester), an ex-NASA scientist who is sent on a joint Russian-American expedition, onboard the spacecraft Leonov, to Jupiter in order to investigate the disappearance of the spacecraft Discovery 1 nine years earlier (as Floyd was partially in charge of Discovery 1's mission), and John Lithgow as Walter Kurnow, the NASA engineer who designed the Discovery 1 spacecraft.
Although the film is generally not as well-recieved as the original, it is nevertheless a very interesting film. The special effects are very well done, as in the first film, and the cast (which, in addition to Scheider and Lithgow, also includes Bob Balaban, Dame Helen Mirren, and several Russian actors in the role of the Leonov crew members) are all fairly good in their roles (although the casting of the Russian-American Balaban is quite strange given that the character in the original novel was stated to be Sri Lankan.)
Shire's soundtrack departs from that of the original film, which mostly used stock cues (albeit very effectively), in that it is a completely original work (although some stock cues from the original are still used.) It features a unique combination of deep metallic sounds, cosmic piano-like sounds, organ-type sounds, and various other effects generated on an NED Synclavier and a Yamaha DX1 synthesizer, as well as more traditional instruments on this piece and the end credits theme (which is a shortened version of this piece.) This has always been one of my favourite films soundtracks for precisely this reason, and I wanted to share it with others.
In keeping with the film's setting, the video itself consists of various images of the planet Jupiter and its four largest moons, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Among the images are two of the first close-up photos of the planet, taken by the Pioneer 10 space probe.
I would like to give apologies (and thanks) to choogo67, for providing me with the music.

[@rhyanwood487]

This movie made me want to get into astronomy and the sciences. It really had a profound impact on me as a young kid.

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That's the power of science fiction.