Directed by:
Stanley Kubrick

Starring:
Keir Dullea as Dr. Dave Bowman
Gary Lockwood as Dr. Frank Poole
William Sylvester as Dr. Haywood R. Floyd
Daniel Richter as Moonwatcher
Leonard Rossiter as Dr. Andrei Smyslov
Margaret Tyzack as Elena
Robert Beatty as Dr. Rolf Halvorsen
Sean Sullivan as Dr. Bill Michaels
Douglas Rain as HAL 9000 (voice)
Frank Miller as Mission controller (voice)

• After Dave uses explosive bolts to hurl him into the discovery, the pod is still next to the Discovery when the explosion would have sent it away from the ship. - trevor mather

• When the Pan Am-shuttle approaches the rotating space-station, you get the pilots view through the windshield. The shuttle and the station rotate synchronous, you can see the starfield in the background revolve, but the sunlight that shines on the space-station comes from the same direction all the time. Obviously the sun must circle in a synchronous orbit around the station... In the same scene: The view of the space-station through the windshield and the view on the pilots docking-display do not fit at all. They are totally out of pace. - Olav Westerman

• The moon-crater in which the slab/monolith is found is a real place on the moon named Clavius. However, it is impossible to see the Earth from that angle on Clavius and have the shadows fall on the Earth in the position that they are seen.

• HAL spies on the conversation between Bowman and Poole by lip-reading. In fact, lip reading from the side is virtually impossible.

• During the Moon-ships approach and landing on the Moon, and even during the Moon-bus flight, the sunlight on the Earth in the background is repeatedly changed from the left hemisphere to the right, and back again. - Olav Westerman

• The only part of the "Discovery" that has artificial gravity is the big centrifuge, but on several occasions when the crew are in other compartments, for example when Bowman and Poole are testing the AE-unit with a probe in the pod-garage, the actors don't even try to simulate weightlessness. - Olav Westerman

• (Continuity) On the Space Station, Heywood Floyd is walking to the restaurant when he stops to make a phone call. The Moon is seen on his left through the window. For reference, lets call this the left side of the station. After Floyd completes his call, he continues in the same direction. Floyd then runs into the Russian scientists, who are on his right or the right side of the station. He then sits down facing the opposite direction, but the Moon is still seen on his left; the right side of the station. Also, the new addition to the Space Station is not seen on the left or on the right side of the station. - observer637546

• (Continuity) When Frank Poole is injured while returning the AE35 unit, Dave Bowman enters the Pod Bay and asks HAL to prepare Pod G (right side of ship) for use. Notice Pod B (center of ship) is missing. This indicates that Pod B was used by Poole and is lost. Pod G is lost when Bowman blows the hatch on it, so it would appear to be useless now whether it was returned to the right or center Pod bay (if Bowman retrieved it at all). When Bowman arrives at the Monolith, he is seen exiting the ship through the Pod B hatch (center Pod bay) again. - observer637546

Corrected Goofs

• During the flight on the shuttle, when the good Doctor is eating his meal by sipping from a tube, when he stops sipping the substance in the tube falls back down the tube, although they are in a weightless state. - dreamrayven
  • Correction: I don't think there is a goof: Although the good Doctor stops sipping, the conservation of momentum of the meal substance would be maintained (a law of physics). This would cause it to continue to flow out of the tube and to splash around inside the shuttle. To avoid this mess, when the Doctor had sipped enough he could simply finish off by blowing and so reverse the direction of flow to send the substance back down the tube. - Soma