Ambassador
- On the ship goes towards Saturn.
- Bowman is excited at the thought that he's going to maybe find out about aliens on behalf of earth.
- That keeps him going, though he's lonely.
- He plays the sound system loudly and listens to plays and then opera and then only instrumental music.
- Heading towards Saturn still.
- The novel says no one has noticed that the rings of Saturn are about the age of the human race; it's suggesting that the aliens who gave humans a push up the evolutionary ladder also destroyed some interplanetary object out by Saturn, creating the rings.