Day: April 19, 1957

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Television

Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: The Traitor

  • April 19, 1965

Voyage To The Bottom Of The SeaThe 32nd episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. George Sanders guest stars in the first season’s finale, and the final episode to be broadcast in black & white.

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Crewed Spaceflight Salyut Soyuz

Salyut 1: the first space station

  • April 19, 1971

SalyutSalyut 1, the first orbiting space station in history is launched, unmanned, by the Soviet Union. With Salyut 1, the Soviet space program intends to vault ahead of the United States in a new space discipline (namely long stays in space and the study of human endurance in a zero-G environment), having lost the moon race. The first Salyut station will orbit Earth for less than a year.

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Escape Into Night: Episode 1

  • April 19, 1972

Escape Into NightITV premieres the first episode of Escape Into Night, adapted by Ruth Boswell from the Catherine Storr novel Marianne Dreams. Though originally shown in color, the color master tapes are lost over time, and the series survives only in black & white recordings originally made to sell to foreign markets. It is these recordings that will eventually get a DVD release in the 21st century.

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Crewed Spaceflight Salyut

Salyut 7

  • April 19, 1982

Salyut 7The Soviet Union launches the last of the Salyut space stations, Salyut 7, into Earth orbit. Reflecting an ongoing significant rethink on space station construction, Salyut 7 is intended from the outset to be docked with additional modules to expand its habitable and working space. It also sets a new endurance record of its own, remaining in orbit for nearly a decade.

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Superboy: Cat And Mouse

  • April 19, 1992

SuperboyThe 96th episode of the syndicated series Superboy, starring Gerard Christopher and Stacy Haiduk, airs. Erin Gray (Buck Rogers In The 25th Century) guest stars.

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Crime Traveller: The Broken Crystal

  • April 19, 1997

Crime TravellerThe eighth and final episode of the time-travel/crime series Crime Traveller is broadcast on BBC1, created and written by Anthony Horowitz (Foyle’s War), starring Michael French (Casualty) and Chloe Annett (Red Dwarf).

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Television X-Files

The X-Files: Mind’s Eye

  • April 19, 1998

The X-FilesThe 113th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Lili Taylor (Six Feet Under, Almost Human) guest stars.

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From The Earth To The Moon: Night 3

  • April 19, 1998

From The Earth To The MoonPay cable channel HBO’s heavily-promoted docudrama miniseries From The Earth To The Moon, continues, executive produced by actor Tom Hanks (Apollo 13) through Ron Howard’s Imagine Films. The series chronicles NASA’s quest to reach the moon, and two episodes debut each Sunday of the show’s run. The third night premieres the episodes Spider (chronicling the evolution of the lunar module and the flights of Apollo 9 and 10) and Mare Tranquilitatis (Apollo 11 and the first lunar landing). Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) stars as Buzz Aldrin, with Tony Goldwyn (Ghost, Scandal) as Neil Armstrong and Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride) as Mike Collins.

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Crewed Spaceflight Endeavour International Space Station Space Shuttle

STS-100: fully armed & operational station

  • April 19, 2001

Space ShuttleSpace Shuttle Endeavour lifts off on the 104th shuttle flight, a 12-day mission to resupply and continue construction of the International Space Station. The primary addition to the station is the Canadian-built remote manipulator arm, derived from the design that has been flown throughout the Space Shuttle program, to be affixed to the station itself. Aboard Endeavour for her 16th flight are Commander Kent Rominger, Pilot Jeff Ashby, and mission specialists Chris Hadfield, Scott Parazynski, John Phillips, Umberto Guidoni and Yuri Lonchakov.