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- February 1, 1929: Composer Jerry
Goldsmith was born.
- February 1, 1948: Actress Elisabeth Sladen, Sarah Jane Smith
of Doctor Who fame, was born.
- February 1, 1954: Bill Mumy, Babylon 5's Lennier and forever doomed to be known
as Will Robinson from Lost In Space, was born.
- February 1, 2003: After 22 years in service (and a major refit),
space shuttle Columbia is destroyed during re-entry into the Earth's
atmosphere, killing crew members Rick Husband, William McCool, David Brown, Mike
Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, Lauren Clark and Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli
astronaut.
- February 2, 1955: Ethan Phillips, Star Trek: Voyager's Neelix, was born.
- February 2, 1959: Brent Spiner,
Star Trek's Data, was born.
- February 3, 1994: Space shuttle Discovery lifts off on mission
number STS-60.
- February 3, 1995: One year later, Discovery lifts off en route to
the first rendezvous/fly-around of the Russian Mir space station.
- February 4, 1906: Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of the planet Pluto, was born.
- February 7, 1932: Al Worden, lunar module pilot on the Apollo 15 mission, was
born.
- February 7, 1984: Challenger astronaut Bruce McCandless performed the first
controlled, non-tethered space walk with one of the MMU "jet
packs" now commonplace on shuttle missions.
- February 10, 1939: Peter Purves,
Doctor Who's first pseudo-American
companion Steven, was born; after leaving the show he went on to become a
successful darts commentator!
- February 10, 1990: The Jupiter-bound Galileo probe visited its first planet on
a wildly looping gravity-assist trajectory to reachs its destination. The
planet was Venus.
- February 11, 1997: Space shuttle Discovery is launched on the second
- and somewhat more routine - mission to service the Hubble Space
Telescope.
- February 13, 1950: Peter Gabriel
was born.
- February 13, 1958: Pernilla August, Shmi Skywalker from
Star Wars Episode I and
Episode II,
was born.
- February 13, 1971: Jerry O'Connell, Quinn from Sliders, was born.
- February 13, 1990: The imaging systems aboard Voyager 1 were powered up for the
final time to take a special long-distance photo of the solar system from
above the planets' orbital plane. Voyager 1 saw all but Mercury, Mars and
Pluto; it was 3,700,000,000 miles away when it took its final family picture.
- February 14, 1942: Andrew J. Robinson, the noted character
actor who portrayed Star Trek: Deep Space
Nine's enigmatic Garak, was born.
- February 15, 1971: Renee O'Connor, who plays Gabrielle on
Xena: Warrior Princess, was born.
- February 15, 1988: The British sci-fi/comedy series
Red Dwarf debuted on BBC2.
- February 16, 1957: LeVar
Burton, Star Trek's Geordi La
Forge, was born.
- February 17, 1957: Michelle Forbes,
Star Trek's
Ensign Ro, was born.
- February 18, 1993: British actress Jacqueline Hill, who played
Barbara Wright, one of the first Doctor Who
companions, died.
- February 20, 1960: Mystery Science Theater
3000's Joel Hodgson was born.
- February 20, 1962: John Glenn became the first American astronaut to orbit the
Earth.
- February 20, 1986: The Soviet space station Mir was launched. This habitat in
space broke several records, including several long-term visits by human
crew members and the first visit by an American spacecraft to a Soviet
station. It was finally abandoned and broke up in the Earth's atmosphere in
2001.
- February 21, 1937: Gary Lockwood, star of
2001 and guest star as the
Enterprise's original first officer Gary Mitchell in the
second pilot episode of
Star Trek in 1966, was born.
- February 22, 1968: Jeri Ryan, who joined the cast of Star Trek: Voyager in 1997 as Seven of Nine, was
born.
- February 22, 1996: Space shuttle Columbia is launched on a mission
whose experiments include the second flight of a tethered satellite - but
during the experiment, the tether breaks and the satellite drifts away from
the shuttle.
- February 23, 1939: Majel
Barrett, the original Star Trek's
Nurse Chapel, later Gene
Roddenberry's wife and Lwaxana Troi,
was born.
- February 27, 1965: In a rural English newspaper, future Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy author Douglas Adams
had his first story published. He was 12 years old at the time, and
the story had nothing to do with galactic hitchhiking.
- February 28, 1990: Space shuttle Atlantis, on mission number STS-36,
lifts off.
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