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Birds Of Prey

Birds Of PreyThe first episode of the superhero series Birds Of Prey, based on characters from the DC Comics universe, premieres on the WB, starring Ashley Scott (Dark Angel), Dina Meyer (Star Trek: Nemesis), Rachel Skarsten (Batwoman), Shemar Moore (Criminal Minds), and Ian Abercrombie. Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) guest stars; Mark Hamill (Star Wars, Batman: The Animated Series) reprises the voice of the Joker. The TV series is created, and the first episode written, by Laeta Kalogridis (Altered Carbon).

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Arrowverse (DC) Television

Arrow: City Of Heroes

ArrowThe 24th episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Summer Glau (Firefly, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chornicles) guest stars in the second season premiere.

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Juno Uncrewed Spaceflight

Juno visits home one last time

Earth as seen by JunoBound for planet Jupiter in 2015, the unmanned space probe Juno swings past Earth to catch a gravity assist boost from its home planet. Launched in 2011, Juno slips past Earth at a distance of only 350 miles, boosting its speed to 93,000 miles per hour relative to the sun, fast enough to cross the distance between Earth and its moon in three hours (by comparison, the Apollo manned missions of the 1960s took three days to make that trip). But as it comes out of Earth’s shadow, Juno goes into a failsafe mode to protect the spacecraft against an unanticipated fault. Juno is brought back online within two days as it continues on the final leg of its flight to Jupiter.

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Crewed Spaceflight International Space Station Music

Chris Hadfield: Space Sessions

Space SessionsWarner Music Canada releases the album Space Sessions: Songs From A Tin Can by former Canadian astronaut and International Space Station commander Chris Hadfield. Hadfield’s guitar parts and vocals were recorded aboard the station itself, in the relatively quiet confines of his sleeping quarters, using his iPad, and were then overdubbed and finished after his return to Earth. All of the songs on the album are written by Hadfield with the exception of his cover of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity”, which set YouTube viewing records in 2013 when it was released just before Hadfield’s departure from the space station.

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