2010: Odyssey Two
After the mysterious failure of the Discovery mission with the malfunction of the HAL 9000 computer and the disappearance of David Bowman, Heywood Floyd was scapegoated. He was forced to resign from the National Council of Astronautics, to be replaced by Victor Millson. He then moved to Hawaii, where he became the Chancellor of the University. He married a woman named Caroline and together they had a son named Christopher, born in 2008 (2006 in the movie).
Floyd was one of the three American experts who were posted aboard the USSR vessel Alexei Leonov in the joint US-USSR mission to Jupiter to find out what happened to the Discovery. He went along with the designer of Discovery, Walter Curnow, and the creator of HAL, Dr. Sivasubramanian Chandrasegarampillai, or Dr. Chandra for short. Once Discovery had been reached and HAL reactivated, Floyd was warned by David Bowman (who was now an incorporeal being) to leave the Jovian system in preparation for the transformation of Jupiter into a mini-sun. The sun, dubbed Lucifer, was the catalyst for the warring nations of Earth to seek peace and also assisted in the evolution of the microscopic lifeforms living in the subterranean oceans of Europa.
In the novels, Floyd's marriage to Caroline broke apart as a result of the Leonov mission.
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