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The Stranger: Episode 4

  • May 3, 1964

The StrangerThe Australian Broadcasting Corporation airs the fourth episode of the science fiction series The Stranger, starring Ron Haddrick. Grant Taylor (UFO) guest stars.

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Escape Into Night: Episode 3

  • May 3, 1972

Escape Into NightITV broadcasts the third episode of Escape Into Night, adapted by Ruth Boswell from the Catherine Storr novel Marianne Dreams. Originally shown in color, the color master tapes are lost over time, and the series survives only in black & white recordings.

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GOES-G goes nowhere fast

  • May 3, 1986

GOES-6NOAA’s GOES-G Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite is launched from Cape Canaveral, intended to replace the failed GOES-5 satellite in a geosynchronous orbit over Earth’s western hemisphere. But an electrical fault destroys GOES-G’s Delta booster in flight, and the rocket explodes 71 seconds into its flight. This is NASA’s first attempt to launch a rocket since the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster earlier in 1986, raising new questions about the space agency’s reliability and safety record.

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From The Earth To The Moon: Night 5

  • May 3, 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 fifth night premieres the episodes For Miles And Miles (Apollo 14) and Galileo Was Right (Apollo 15). Brett Cullen (Legacy, Lost) appears as Dave Scott; Adam Baldwin (Chuck, Firefly), Ted Levine (Monk) and Gary Cole (Crusade, Office Space) guest star.

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GOES-11 goes weather watching…after a while

  • May 3, 2000

GOES-11After over a year of launch delays, NOAA’s GOES-11 Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite is launched from Cape Canaveral into geosynchronous orbit to monitor weather patterns over the United States. It will be held in reserve until 2006, when it will be moved to the GOES-WEST position to replace GOES-10, which is nearly out of fuel. The longevity of its predecessor means that GOES-11 doesn’t begin its active daily weather-watching until a year after the end of its projected five-year design lifespan, and GOES-12 will actually go active before GOES-11. GOES-11 will remain in service through the end of 2011, when it will boost itself into a higher-than-geostationary “graveyard” orbit and shut down.