EVA Pod "B" being used for external maintenance.
A Discovery EVA pod extends its remotely operated mechanical arms.
The EVA Pod is a fictional spacecraft used for extra-vehicular activity seen in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Jupiter spacecraft Discovery One carries three of these small, one-man maintenance vehicles.
Trivia
- The RB-79 Ball, seen in Mobile Suit Gundam, is similarly looking, but armed. They are also known as Iron Coffin due to their weak defense.
- In Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, the EVA pod prop used in the movie version of 2010 can be seen in Watto's junkyard.
- The name of iPod is partly inspired by the EVA Pod; when Vinnie Chieco, a freelance copywriter who was invited by Apple, saw a prototype for the player, he thought of the movie and the phrase: "Open the pod bay door, Hal!" At that time "iPod" was a name that Apple registered for Internet kiosks, but never put to use.
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| Films | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) · 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) |
| Books | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) · 2010: Odyssey Two (1982) · 2061: Odyssey Three (1987) · 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997) · The Lost Worlds of 2001 (1972) |
| Comics | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1976) |
| Short stories | "The Sentinel" (written 1948, first published 1951 as "Sentinel of Eternity") |
| Characters | HAL 9000 · David Bowman · Dr. Chandra · Walter Curnow · Heywood Floyd · Frank Poole |
| Vehicles | Discovery One · EVA Pod · Leonov · Orion III · Aries Ib · Space Station V · Moonbus |
| Locations | Earth · Moon · Clavius Base · Tycho · Jupiter · Europa · Io · Ganymede · Saturn · Iapetus |
| Cast | Keir Dullea · John Lithgow · Gary Lockwood · Helen Mirren · Douglas Rain · Roy Scheider · William Sylvester · Leonard Rossiter · Margaret Tyzack |
| Crew/creators | Arthur C. Clarke · Peter Hyams · Jack Kirby · Stanley Kubrick |
| Interpretations | Interpretations of 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| Music | Alex North's 2001: A Space Odyssey |
