Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off on the shuttle program’s 65th mission. The eleven-day flight is a second round of space radar experiments, using a cargo-bay-mounted radar system that flew earlier in 1994 aboard Endeavour. The crew for this flight consists of Commander Michael Baker, Pilot Terrence Wilcutt, Payload Commander Thomas Jones, and mission specialists Steven Smith, Daniel Bursch and Peter Wisoff.
The 27th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny, and Mitch Pileggi. William Sanderson (Blade Runner) guest stars.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 62nd episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. Erica Gimpel (Fame, ER) guest stars. 
Launched in 1978 as a joint venture between NASA and ESA, the unmanned International Ultraviolet Explorer is commanded to exhaust its remaining fuel and cease all contact with Earth. Though its detectors and other instruments are still functioning well after 18 years in orbit, its stabilization gyros have failed one by one until the satellite is unable to be aimed at deep space targets with any accuracy. IUE remains powered down, adrift in a geosynchronous orbit.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 25th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, opening the show’s second season.
The fourth episode of the science fiction series The Cape premieres in syndication in North America, starring Corbin Bernsen (L.A. Law) and Adam Baldwin, and focusing on a fictionalized version of NASA’s shuttle program.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 97th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the beginning of the series’ fifth season. Robert O’Reilly guest stars; J.G. Hertzler makes his first appearance as General Martok.
A long-standing mystery of one of the moons of Jupiter is solved, opening many more questions. Data gathered by the Galileo unmanned orbiter reveals that a previously unidentifiable substance on Europa’s surface is sulfuric acid, a compound used as battery acid on Earth. Scientists quickly split into two camps on the origins of the acid: it may be welling up from inside Europa, or it may be volcanic material ejected from Io and then deposited on Europa as the moons’ orbits occasionally bring them into conjunction. Though the presence of sulfuric acid initially dashes hopes of finding life on Europa, the possibility is not completely ruled out by this finding.
Basta Records releases Manhattan Research, Inc., an album of experimental early electronic music and classic radio advertising jingles written and performed by Raymond Scott (1908-1994); vocals (both sung and spoken) include performances by his wife, Dorothy Collins, and pre-Muppets Jim Henson. The music on the album is played by instruments and early sequencers that Scott invented himself.
Big Finish Productions releases the third Sarah Jane Smith audio drama, a Doctor Who audio spinoff starring Elisabeth Sladen, reprising her TV role.
Epic Records releases the Ben Folds’ EP Sunny 16, the second of a trio of EPs.
Big Finish Productions releases the 13th Dalek Empire audio drama, a Doctor Who audio spinoff starring David Tennant and William Gaunt.
Big Finish Productions releases the 73rd Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker, Bonnie Langford, and Maggie Stables.
Big Finish Productions releases the 74th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred.
Serenity, the feature film follow-up to Joss Whedon’s science fiction series Firefly, makes its theatrical premiere. Whedon writes and directs; the full cast of the series returns, and Chiwetel Ejiofor also stars.
Big Finish Productions releases the 86th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant. Claudia Christian (Babylon 5) guest stars.
Big Finish Productions releases the first I, Davros audio drama, a Doctor Who audio spinoff starring Terry Molloy, reprising his TV role as creator of the Daleks.
Big Finish Productions releases the 87th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Peter Davison and Janet Fielding.
Big Finish Productions releases the 100th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker and Maggie Stables.
Big Finish Productions releases the 113th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Peter Davison and Sarah Sutton.
Big Finish Productions releases the 23rd episode of the new Eighth Doctor Who audio dramas, starring Paul McGann and Sheridan Smith.
Big Finish Productions releases the 125th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker and India Fisher.
Part of the 21st full-time crew of the International Space Station lifts off from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard Soyuz TMA-16. Maksim Surayev and Jeffrey Williams take up residence on the ISS for 168 days, becoming part of the Expedition 21 crew. Joining them for the flight to the ISS is Canadian space tourist and Cirque de Soleil CEO Guy Laliberté, who visits the station for ten days before returning to Earth aboard Soyuz TMA-14 with members of the Expedition 19/20 crew. As with other space tourists before him, he pays for his own Soyuz seat and space training, but the impending retirement of the space shuttle fleet puts an end to Soyuz space tourism for several years after this flight.
Big Finish Productions releases the 28th episode of the new Eighth Doctor Who audio dramas, starring Paul McGann.
Big Finish Productions releases the 138th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton, and Mark Strickson.
Big Finish Productions releases the 139th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred.
Big Finish Productions releases the 152nd Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy.
Columbia Records releases the soundtrack from the 2015 science fiction movie The Martian by Harry Gregson-Williams.