Galactic 02
Virgin Galactic launches the Galactic 02 suborbital spaceflight aboard the SpaceShipTwo-class VSS Unity. The flight is piloted by CJ Sturckow and Kelly Latimer, with Birgin Galactic’s Beth Moses aboard as the astronaut instructor. The passengers are space tourists Jon Goodwin, Keisha Schahaff, and Anastatia Mayers. Goodwin is the first space traveler to fly after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease.
Superman & Lois: The Eradicator
The CW airs the 14th episode of Superman & Lois, starring Tyler Hoechlin, Elizabeth Tulloch, Jordan Elsass, and Alex Garfin. Dean Marshall (Babylon 5: Legend Of The Rangers, Stargate Atlantis) guest stars.
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STS-105 / ISS Expedition 3
Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off on the 106th shuttle flight, a mission to exchange crews aboard the International Space Station. The shuttle’s cargo bay carries a logistics module containing more equipment for the ISS laboratory module, as well as storage racks to be installed elsewhere in the station. Aboard Discovery for her 30th flight are Commander Scott Horowitz, Pilot Frederick Sturckow, missions specialists Daniel Barry and Patrick Forrester, and ISS Expedition 3 crewmembers Frank Culbertson, Mikhail Turin and Vladimir Dezhurov, who remain aboard the station. Returning to Earth via Discovery are ISS Expedition 2 crewmembers Yury Usachev, James Voss and Susan Helms.
Stargate SG-1: Beast of Burden
Pay cable channel Showtime airs the 93rd episode of Stargate SG-1. Larry Drake (Darkman, L.A. Law) and Alex Zahara (Jeremiah) guest star.
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Return To Jupiter: Ghosts
The tenth episode of Return To Jupiter airs on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Co-produced by ABC and Japanese network NHK, this children’s sci-fi series stars Sonia Todd (Home And Away) and David Wenham (The Lord Of The Rings trilogy).
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Babylon 5: Babylon Squared
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 20th episode of Babylon 5. The episode is a somewhat convoluted time travel story, telling only half of a story that goes unresolved until the third season.
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The Lenny Zakatek: Lenny
A&M Records releases the self-titled solo album by Lenny Zakatek, a frequent Alan Parsons Project vocalist.
A near miss: the Great 1972 Fireball
In the broad daylight of mid-afternoon, an asteroid measuring somewhere between 10 and 50 feet in diameter plows through Earth’s atmosphere over North America, creating a long-tailed fireball across the sky. Undetected before its close pass – only 35 miles from Earth’s surface – asteroid US19720810 skips off of the atmosphere and back into space, having lost half of its mass to the frictional heating of plummeting through the atmosphere. The spectacle lasts only a couple of minutes, and US19720810 will make another pass by the Earth in 1997 (though not at such a close distance).
Doctor Who: The Dominators, Part 1
The 210th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This story is the beginning of season six, Patrick Troughton’s final season and the last season to be shot in black & white.
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Lunar Orbiter 1 launched
The first of five Lunar Orbiter satellites is launched by NASA, on a mission to map the moon and scout out promising landing sites for the Apollo program. In addition, radiation and micrometeor collision detectors fly aboard each Lunar Orbiter to see if the design specs of the Apollo spacecraft will be adequate to protect astronauts. Lunar Orbiter 1 is the first spacecraft to send home an image of the Earth as seen from the moon. To keep it from being a navigational hazard to future spacecraft, each Lunar Orbiter deorbits and crashes into the moon after completing its survey.
Adventures Of Superman: The Unknown People Part II
The 26th episode of The Adventures Of Superman airs in syndication, starring George Reeves, Phyllis Coates, and Jack Larson. This two-parter was created by editing the 1951 film Superman And The Mole-Men. This marks Phyllis Coates’ final appearance in the role of Lois Lane, and concludes the first season.
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Adventures Of Superman: The Unknown People Part I
The 25th episode of The Adventures Of Superman airs in syndication, starring George Reeves, Phyllis Coates, and Jack Larson. This two-parter was created by editing the 1951 film Superman And The Mole-Men.
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Tales Of Tomorrow: Blunder
The second episode of ABC’s science fiction anthology series, Tales Of Tomorrow, air on ABC, with each episode’s opening titles proclaiming that the series is produced “in cooperation with the Science-Fiction League of America”, a collective of sci-fi writers including Isaac Asimov and Theodore Sturgeon among its members. This episode stars Robert Allen and Ann Loring.
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