Xena: Warrior Princess: The Way

XenaThe week-long national syndication window opens for the 84th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, starring Lucy Lawless and Renee O’Connor. Elements of this episode generate controversy, and affiliate TV stations carrying the show are warned to expect some viewer complaints. Read more

Highlander: The Raven: Inferno

Highlander: The RavenThe 15th episode of Highlander: The Raven, starring Amanda Gracen and Paul Johannson, airs in syndication; the series is a spinoff from Highlander: The Series. Michelle Gomez (Doctor Who) guest stars.

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: This Year’s Girl

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 71st episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. James Marsters, Anthony Stewart Head, and Alyson Hannigan also star. Amber Benson and Eliza Dushku guest star.

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The Strangerers: Vegetables

The StrangerersThe second episode of the science fiction comedy series The Strangerers is broadcast on Sky One, created and written by Rob Grant (Red Dwarf), starring Mark Williams and Jack Docherty. Paul Darrow (Blake’s 7) guest stars.

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The Orchestra: No Rewind

No RewindArt Records releases The Orchestra’s album No Rewind. This is a new lineup for the band previously known as Electric Light Orchestra Part II, which – after the departure of founding ELO drummer Bev Bevan – is now legally required to avoid references to Electric Light Orchestra in any promotional material. This album saw limited release as a tour exclusive in 2001; this is its first retail release. Read more

The X-Files: My Struggle II

The X-FilesThe 207th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. Mitch Pileggi, Annabeth Gish, William B. Davis, Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under) and Robbie Amell (The Tomorrow People, The Flash) guest star in the tenth season finale.

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The seven worlds of TRAPPIST-1

Trappist-1NASA announces the discovery, via the Spitzer Space Telescope, of a system of seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1, only 40 light years from Earth’s solar system. Though water may exist in some state on all seven of the planets, three of them are thought to be orbiting within the “Goldilocks zone” in which liquid water would be abundant, making life possible on the surfaces of those planets.

Beresheet launched

BeresheetThe Israeli-built Beresheet uncrewed experimental lunar lander is launched from Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Originally intended as an entrant for the Google Lunar X Prize, Beresheet (and all the other hopefuls) missed the March 31, 2018 deadline, leaving the $20,000,000 Lunar X Prize unclaimed. Unlike past lunar missions, Beresheet is launched into a high Earth orbit, whose apogee (maximum distance from Earth) will be increased over a period of nearly two months with multiple burns of the vehicle’s main engine until it coincides with the orbital distance of the moon, at which time the engine will be fired again to place it in a lunar orbit prior to landing. The lander contains digital copies of numerous documents from Earth, reflecting the builders’ Jewish heritage as well as extensive databases of knowledge from sources such as Wikipedia. As the lander itself has not been built with protective shielding of any kind, its operational lifetime is expected to last only around two days on the lunar surface. If the mission succeeds, Israel will be the fourth nation (after the United States, Soviet-era Russia, and China) to land a spacecraft on the moon.