Categories
Television

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: School Hard

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 15th episode of Joss Whedon’s trend-setting supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. Anthony Stewart Head, David Boreanaz, and Alyson Hannigan also star. Juliet Landau guest stars, and James Marsters makes his first appearance as Spike.

This series is not yet chronicled in the LogBook. You could help change that.

Categories
Television

Timecop: The Heist

TimecopThe second episode of Mark Verheiden’s science fiction series Timecop is broadcast on ABC, starring Ted King and Don Stark, loosely based on the 1994 movie of the same name (also co-written by Verheiden). William Devane (Knots Landing) guest stars.

This series is not yet chronicled in the LogBook. You could help change that.

Categories
Television

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Anne

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 35th episode of Joss Whedon’s trend-setting supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. Anthony Stewart Head, David Boreanaz, and Alyson Hannigan also star in the third season premiere.

This series is not yet chronicled in the LogBook. You could help change that.

Categories
Crewed Spaceflight SpaceShip One

SpaceShip One twists into space

SpaceShip OneThe first qualifying flight for the Ansari X Prize becomes a dangerous one for pilot Mike Melvill, as the experimental spacecraft SpaceShip One begins a rapid roll after its rocket engine ignites, sending the vehicle on a twisty trajectory into suborbital space. The vehicle reaches just under Mach 3, and still passes the altitude of 100 kilometers necessary to be considered a space flight (and to be considered a contender for the X Prize), but SpaceShip One must repeat the feat to win the $10,000,000 prize for launching the first privately funded spacecraft.

Categories
Crewed Spaceflight Tiangong

Tiangong-1 space station launched

Tiangong-1China launches its first space station, an “orbital laboratory” called Tiangong-1 (which translates roughly to “heavenly palace”). No manned mission to Tiangong-1 is planned until after ground controllers launch a remote-controlled Shenzhou vehicle, Shenzhou 8, to practice docking maneuvers and remotely sample the atmosphere aboard Tiangong-1’s pressurized area. The first manned visitors to Tiangong-1 won’t lift off until 2012.

Categories
Crewed Spaceflight International Space Station

Cygnus arrives at International Space Station

CygnusOrbital Sciences’ unmanned Cygnus cargo spacecraft is grappled and docked to the International Space Station via remote manipulator arm. This demonstration model of the Cygnus cargo ship had been launched ten days earlier via Orbital Sciences’ Antares booster from Wallops Island, Virginia. With 1,300 pounds of crew supplies, experiments and other cargo aboard, the Cygnus vehicle is expected to remain attached to the station for a full month before being jettisoned to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere.