Long-lost Doctor Who episode recovered

Doctor WhoThe BBC announces that a private collector has returned part two of the mostly-missing twelve-part Doctor Who story, The Daleks’ Master Plan, to its archives. Last seen in late 1965, the episode has been in the possession of the former chief engineer of the competing Yorkshire Television network ever since the early ’70s – when he snatched it from the BBC archives (where he was a trainee at the time) rather than destroying it as ordered. The 25-minute episode, subtitled Day Of Armageddon, is handed over to the Doctor Who Restoration Team, which oversees the preservation and restoration of past episodes for DVD release.

Stardust comes home

StardustNASA’s unmanned Stardust space probe successfully returns its samples of comet and interstellar dust to Earth. A few minutes after 5:00am Eastern time, the Stardust sample return capsule makes a soft landing in Utah, its record-setting 29,000mph return to Earth slowed by a series of parachutes. (Before Stardust’s return, the fastest vehicle to enter Earth’s atmosphere was the capsule bringing home the crew of Apollo 10 in May 1969.) It is hoped that analysis of the tiny particles captured in cakes of a special porous material called aerogel will shed some light on the origins of the solar system. The “mother ship” portion of the Stardust probe is left on a course that will put it into a permanent orbit around the sun. Stardust was launched in February 1999, and gathered its samples from the cloud of gas and dust surrounding Comet Wild-2 in January 2004, zipping through the comet’s coma at 13,000mph.

A spacewalk washout

International Space StationA relatively routine spacewalk at the International Space Station is cut short when astronaut Tim Kopra notices a globule of water in the helmet of his spacesuit. Perhaps mindful of a far more serious incident in 2013, NASA calls off the spacewalk, ordering Kopra and fellow astronaut Tim Peake – the first British spacewalker – back inside the station.

WandaVision

WandaVisionStreaming service Disney Plus premieres the first and second episodes of WandaVision, created for TV by Jac Schaeffer and starring Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany reprising the characters of Wanda Maximoff and Vision. Kathryn Hahn also stars. Set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the series involves the characters after the events of Avengers: Endgame, and progresses through a succession of styles patterned on classic TV sitcoms (for reasons that become apparent as the story unfolds).

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