Day: May 7, 2003

Enterprise: Regeneration

EnterpriseThe 48th episode of the Star Trek prequel spinoff Enterprise premieres on UPN. This episode marks Starfleet’s first chronological encounter with the Borg, though ironically, the Borg are left over from the events of the movie Star Trek: First Contact.

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Apollo rides again?

Apollo command moduleLast flown in the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission, the Apollo command/service module is – briefly – given strong consideration by NASA to serve as a “lifeboat” for the crew of the International Space Station, even to the point of conducting a study about un-mothballing the surviving unused Apollo hardware sitting in museums around the world. Part of the reason for this unusual study is that NASA’s budget has run out for finding a workable solution to keeping a “lifeboat” available to station astronauts in the anticipated long gap before the Space Shuttle’s return to service. Ultimately, even the seemingly unthinkable return of Apollo is nixed, since at least a Saturn IB booster would need to be similarly refitted – at huge expense – to lift a 30-year-old Apollo capsule into space.