Year: 1996

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Television

TekWar: Redemption

  • February 2, 1996

TekWarThe 17th episode of the sci-fi crime series TekWar, based on William Shatner’s novel series, airs as part of the Universal Action Pack syndication package. Greg Evigan, William Shatner, and Maria del Mar star. (The series has already been cancelled at this point; Universal is burning off the remaining episodes into off-season time slots.)

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Television X-Files

The X-Files: Grotesque

  • February 2, 1996

The X-FilesThe 63rd episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Kurtwood Smith (RoboCop, That ’70s Show) guest stars.

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Television X-Files

The X-Files: Piper Maru

  • February 9, 1996

The X-FilesThe 64th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Robert Clothier and Nicholas Lea guest star.

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The Outer Limits: First Anniversary

  • February 16, 1996

The Outer LimitsPremium cable channel Showtime airs the 28th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Matt Frewer (Max Headroom), Jayne Heitmeyer (Earth: Final Conflict), Clint Howard (Space Rangers) and Steve Bacic (Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda) guest star.

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Television X-Files

The X-Files: Apocrypha

  • February 16, 1996

The X-FilesThe 65th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. John Neville, William B. Davis, and Nicholas Lea guest star.

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NEAR-Shoemaker Uncrewed Spaceflight

NEAR launched

  • February 17, 1996

NEARThe NEAR (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous) unmanned spacecraft, built and flown for NASA by John Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Lab, lifts off from Cape Canaveral on a mission to orbit and study asteroid 433 Eros, a target it won’t reach until 1998 at the earliest; it will fly by another asteroid in 1997. Other trajectories under consideration during mission planning included a combination of several asteroids and comets, before the limitations of NEAR’s chemical propulsion system forced those plans to be scaled back. (A more ambitious multi-asteroid mission, Dawn, will be launched in the 21st century.) NEAR will become the first human-made spacecraft to land on an asteroid.

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TekWar: Betrayal

  • February 19, 1996

TekWarThe 18th episode of the sci-fi crime series TekWar, based on William Shatner’s novel series, airs as part of the Universal Action Pack syndication package. One of Shatner’s daughter, Melanie Shatner (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier), guest stars in a script written by her sister, Lisabeth Shatner, who had also written an episode of Shatner’s 1980s cop show T.J. Hooker. This is the final episode of TekWar to be produced and aired.

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Crewed Spaceflight Mir Soyuz

Soyuz TM-23

  • February 21, 1996

Soyuz TM-23Russia launches the Soyuz TM-23 mission to the Mir space station. The crew, cosmonauts Yuri Onufrienko and Yury Usachov, remain aboard Mir for 193 days, returning to Earth in September 1996 with French spationaut Claudie André-Deshays.

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Columbia Crewed Spaceflight Space Shuttle

STS-75

  • February 22, 1996

Space ShuttleSpace Shuttle Columbia is launched on the 75th shuttle flight, staying in orbit for nearly 16 days. The crew attempts to deploy a tethered satellite experiment flown unsuccessfully in 1992, only to watch as the tether snaps with the satellite 12 miles away from the shuttle. The remainder of the flight is spent conducting planned material science experiments. Aboard Columbia for her 19th flight are Commander Andrew Allen, Pilot Scott Horowitz, Payload Commander Franklin Chang-Diaz, and mission specialists Maurizio Cheli, Jeffrey Hoffman, Claude Nicollier and Umberto Guidoni. To this day, video of the satellite floating in space after the tether failure is circulated as “proof” of the existence of UFOs.