2001: A Space Odyssey

1) Moon-Watcher - One of the most innately gifted man-apes. Moon-Watcher demonstrates the ability to walk upright and to engage in crude planning. His mind is pushed along a bit further by the black monolith. He is the first person to kill another being for food. Dr. Heywood Floyd - A senior government official and ex-scientist. Floyd is sent to the moon to investigate TMA. He is an effective bureaucrat and an extremely wise scientist. He …

…fact that back then they thought that in the year 2001 that we would have a base on the moon, have routine flights there and to Mars, and have artificial hibernation a standard in space flight. It’s ironic because only recently we’ve just sent probes to Mars which didn’t have the greatest efficiency, and I don’t remember the last manned flight to the moon, because well, there’s nothing there of value.