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Star Trek: TNG Collection Vol. 1 soundtrack

Star Trek: The Motion PictureSoundtrack specialty label La-La Land Records releases a limited edition 3-CD set featuring selections from various Star Trek: The Next Generation episode soundtracks. With the exception of two short tracks, none of the music on this set – which spans the entire seven-year run of the series – has been released before. Music by Dennis McCarthy, Jay Chattaway, John Debney, Don Davis and Fred Steiner is included.

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Juno Uncrewed Spaceflight

Juno to Jupiter!

JunoNASA launches the unmanned Juno space probe on its way to Jupiter, on a trajectory that will accelerate the vehicle through a series of maneuvers, including a gravity assist pass of Earth, en route to Jupiter. Once it arrives at the solar system’s largest planet, Juno will enter a polar orbit to monitor the planet’s clouds and magnetic field over a period of one year beginning in 2016. Juno is solar-powered, without the customary nuclear power source that has been a feature of all previous outer solar system missions. Since it will spend time within the heaviest area of Jupiter’s magnetosphere, Juno’s components are built into a hexagonal structure which acts as a heavy-duty Faraday cage to block out the radiation trapped within Jupiter’s magnetic field.

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The Black Hole soundtrack

Soundtrack specialty label Intrada releases one of the most-requested “holy grails” in the history of the hobby of soundtrack collecting, an official CD release of John Barry’s soundtrack from the 1979 Disney science fiction movie The Black Hole. Presented in its entirety for the first time, the release is the product of years of work to recover and copy the original session tapes, which were originally recorded on a now-obscure digital tape format.

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Television

Eureka: This One Time At Space Camp…

EurekaSyfy airs the 61st episode of the science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, and Joe Morton. Wallace Shawn (The Princess Bride, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Ming-Na Wen (Agents Of SHIELD, The Book Of Boba Fett), Aaron Douglas (Battlestar Galactica), Felicia Day (Mystery Science Theater 3000), and Tembi Locke (Sliders) guest star.

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Television

Eureka: One Giant Leap…

EurekaSyfy airs the 63rd episode of the science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, and Joe Morton. David Foley (The Kids In The Hall), Matt Frewer (Max Headroom), Wil Wheaton (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Ming-Na Wen (Agents Of SHIELD, The Book Of Boba Fett), Felicia Day (Mystery Science Theater 3000), and Tembi Locke (Sliders) guest star.

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Crewed Spaceflight Tiangong

Tiangong-1 space station launched

Tiangong-1China launches its first space station, an “orbital laboratory” called Tiangong-1 (which translates roughly to “heavenly palace”). No manned mission to Tiangong-1 is planned until after ground controllers launch a remote-controlled Shenzhou vehicle, Shenzhou 8, to practice docking maneuvers and remotely sample the atmosphere aboard Tiangong-1’s pressurized area. The first manned visitors to Tiangong-1 won’t lift off until 2012.

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Crewed Spaceflight International Space Station Soyuz

Soyuz TMA-22

Soyuz TMA-22Part of the 29th full-time crew of the International Space Station lifts off from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard Soyuz TMA-22. Anton Shkaplerov, Anatoli Ivanishin and Daniel Burbank take up residence on the ISS for 165 days, becoming part of the Expedition 29/30 crews. All three return to Earth in April 2012 aboard the same vehicle. This was the first Soyuz mission to the International Space Station following the end of the American space shuttle program.

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Curiosity Uncrewed Spaceflight

Mars Science Laboratory launched

CuriosityThe Mars Science Laboratory mission is launched toward the red planet on an Atlas V rocket. The ambitious unmanned mission is intended to deposit a car-sized, nuclear-powered rover, nicknamed Curiosity, on the surface of Mars for an extended survey of the planet’s surface. Heavier than any of its predecessors, Curiosity will use an unprecedented means of slowing itself for descent, dangling from a “sky crane” for a soft touchdown after descending through the Martian atmosphere behind a protective heat shield.