Year: 1975

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Cosmos Uncrewed Spaceflight

1975’s other international space mission

  • November 25, 1975

CosmosThe 1972 Space Cooperation Agreement, whose most obvious effect is the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project earlier in the year, bears more fruit in the form of the first unmanned international research mission. American experiments are launched aboard a Soviet Cosmos satellite for the first time, along with experiment packages prepared by French, Czech, Polish, Romanian, and Hungarian scientists. Cosmos 782, the third “Biocosmos” flight, ends after 19 days, with the experiments landed safely in Siberia at the conclusion of the flight.

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Franchises Movies Star Wars

Star Wars greenlit

  • December 13, 1975

Star WarsHaving score a minor genre cult classic in THX-1138, and a legitimate mainstream hit with American Graffiti, director George Lucas’ new project, a science fiction film called Star Wars, is formally greenlit by 20th Century Fox, initially with a $7,000,000 budget. The project has been in script development at 20th Century Fox since the summer of 1973, with Universal Studios and United Artists having already passed on it, the later because of the anticipated budget requirements for Lucas’ visions of a sci-fi film on a grand scale. Due largely to being personally championed by Alan Ladd, Jr., president of Fox’s film division, the project still has hurdles to overcome, including numerous threats of the studio shutting it down. Filming will begin in 1976.

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Television

The Lost Saucer: Land Of The Talking Plants

  • December 20, 1975

The Lost SaucerABC airs the 16th and final episode of Sid & Marty Krofft’s The Lost Saucer, starring Jim Nabors (The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle USMC) and Ruth Buzzi (Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In). John Fiedler guest stars. The Lost Saucer will join the Krofft Supershow rotation the following year (and for years afterward) on ABC.

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