Dimitri Moisevitch

Dimitri Moisevitch was a secondary character featured in the "Space Odyssey" series of films and novels as envisioned by author Arthur C. Clarke. The character first appeared in chapter eight of Clarke's 1968 novel 2001: A Space Odyssey. Although Moisevitch did not appear in the film of the same name, he did appear in the 1984 sequel 2010: The Year We Make Contact where he was played by actor Dana Elcar.

History
Dimitri Moisevitch was a tall, slender, blonde-haired Russian astronomer from Odessa. He was appointed to the role of advisor to the Soviet Academy of Science and in 1990, at the age of forty-five, began developing a radio observatory on the far side of Earth's moon. His team spent the better part of ten years carving through two-thousand miles of solid rock to shield the observatory from the persistent electronic chatter from Earth.

A lifelong friend of the chairman of the National Council of Astronautics Heywood R. Floyd, he often invited he and his family to vacation with him in Odessa. Moisevitch reunited with Floyd in the year 2001 when the latter came to Space Station One as a stopgap for a top-priority mission to the moon. Moisevitch knew that Floyd was responding to allegations of the moon being under quarantine and tried to pry more information out of him on the subject. Under strict orders to remain silent, Heywood was unable to divulge the truth about the alleged quarantine, but Moisevitch's sources told him that it related to something called TMA-1. As the project was classified top secret, Floyd refused to satisfy his old friend's growing curiosity on the matter.