In the first one we see Astronaut Hathaway sitting by the fire as in TMC devastated by the cold, wind and loneliness and 25 years later he has brought his [virtual] family up where they are the last remaining humans on Mars [having missed the last flight back to Earth, and death].
You can see the dead city behind which he lights up at night to ease loneliness and the house architecture and location are as described in TMC, so everything cross checks, especially the twin moons as described in TMC.
But in TMC there is more [with interest to 2001 A Space Odyssey] where his captain from 2001 returns FROM A 25 YEAR JUPITER trip and stops off at Mars on way back to Earth [if it's still there], and having aged just as Bowman does in ASO.
now Kubrick used the [Earth?] Moon as the 2001 start point and not Mars [for obvious reasons] but one can only guess if the scene where he eats asparagus and spills the wine is intened to be on Earth OR was this in fact intended by Kubrick to replicate the scene from TMC where Captain Wilder has a meal with the Hathaway family on Mars [where in fact the family are androids explaining in a metaphysical sense (as per several of the TMC stories) why Bowman eats alone and sees nobody but Hathaway].
It's food for thought and the projection to the old man in bed dying [same as Hathaway does] followed by a spot of Zarathustra's Eternal Recurrence certainly fits very nicely in a Kubrick sort of way.
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