Walter Curnow is a fictional book character. He appears in the book and movie versions of 2010: Odyssey Two which is part of the Space Odyssey series. There, he is the American engineer who designed Discovery and was helping to build Discovery II to go back to Jupiter. When the joint Soviet-American mission on the Leonov was planned instead, Curnow was one of the three American experts to go on the trip along with Heywood Floyd and Dr. Chandra.