Dave Bowman

Dave Bowman is the central character featured in the 1968 science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Played by actor Keir Dullea, he also appeared in the 1984 sequel 2010: The Year We Make Contact. The character is also presented in the 2001: A Space Odyssey novel as well as its sequel 2010: Odyssey Two. Dave Bowman is presented as an astronaut who encounters an alien monolith that causes his body to evolve into a higher state of being.

Biography
Dave Bowman was an astronaut who was assigned to the Discovery One space shuttle on a top secret mission to the planet Jupiter in the year 2001. His colleage, Doctor Francis "Frank" Poole as well as the rest of the crew and even Bowman himself were unaware of the true nature of their mission. Only the Discovery One 's onboard computer system, an artificial intelligence known as the HAL 9000, was privy to the specifics of the mission.