Corrected entry: When Max and Curnow enter Discovery through the emergency airlock, they emerge inside the pod bay to find the last remaining pod (even though all three pods were actually gone). It is in the spot next to the airlock door, but later when Floyd, Curnow, Chandra and the other Russian cosmonaut are talking, the pod has suddenly moved two spots over.
jbrbbt
22nd Mar 2011
Correction: The pod accounting is correct, as Pod 1 was lost with Poole and Pod 2 was lost with Bowman. There is considerable time between when Max and Curnow first enter the ship and when Hal is fully reactivated (weeks in the novel), allowing for one or more EVAs to examine and restore the ship. There's no reason that the pod couldn't have been used for some purpose and then returned to a different location afterwards.