Heywood Floyd Timeline and Summary

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• Floyd is summoned to the moon to deal with the discovery of TMA-1.
• He gets to the moon and sees TMA-1 broadcast its signal.
• He helps plan the Discovery mission.
• After Hal goes nuts, Floyd explains to Bowman that the real purpose of the mission is to find some sign of alien life on Japetus, the moon of Saturn to which TMA-1 broadcast its signal.