Clavius Base
Clavius Base is a fictional lunar settlement in the "Space Odyssey" literary universe created by Arthur C. Clarke. Clavius Base. The base, located at Clavius crater, is featured in both the 1968 and versions of "". According to the novel, the base was finished in 1994 by United States Astronautical Engineering Corps. If necessary, the base can be self-sustaining. As depicted on-screen, Clavius has some surface features (a landing pad and control tower, together with other ancillary support structures), but the vast majority of the base is located beneath the lunar surface to protect it from micro -meteoroid impacts and solar radiation. Incoming spacecraft set down on a landing platform beneath a dome which opens as the vessel descends. The landing platform is part of an enormous elevator, which lowers the spacecraft into a cavernous docking bay, illuminated in red. Clavius is the main base on the moon, and jointly run by American and Russian administration. Events at Clavius Base. Clavius was placed under a quarantine with the cover story of an epidemic when the Tycho Magnetic Anomaly TMA-1 artefact was excavated. Dr. Heywood R. Floyd travelled to the base to investigate the monolith about 18 months  prior to the departure of the spacecraft "Discovery" on her mission to Jupiter (in the novel, Saturn). While present at the base, Floyd met with American lunar officials and notified them that as part of the investigation into the Monolith the government was requiring security oaths to be taken from each individual on the base. He then departed for the crater Tycho on the Moonbus to see the Monolith, and as a result witnessed its unveiling to sunlight.