2001: A Space Odyssey
As chairman of the National Council of Astronautics, Floyd was called up to Clavius Base on the Moon after a large rectangular black monolith dubbed TMA-1 (Tycho Magnetic Anomaly 1) had been uncovered there. He was present when the monolith began emitting a signal when first exposed to sunlight. He authorized the Discovery One mission to Jupiter (Saturn in the first novel) to investigate the presumed destination of the signals that were emitted by TMA-1.
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