Year: 1989

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Superboy: With This Ring, I Thee Kill

  • October 7, 1989

SuperboyThe 28th episode of the syndicated series Superboy, starring Gerard Christopher and Stacy Haiduk, airs. Sherman Howard guest stars as Lex Luthor in the second season premiere, which also features a new actor in the lead role.

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The People vs. Galileo?

  • October 10, 1989

STS-34A lawsuit, filed by environmental activists worried about the release of plutonium from the Galileo Jupiter probe’s radioisotope thermoelectric generators in the event of a Challenger-like disaster during launch, is dismissed by a federal judge; the President of the United States has also given permission for the launch to proceed (a requirement anytime a nuclear-fueled spacecraft is in the works). The suit, filed earlier in the year, sought an injunction to prevent Galileo from being launched. Times have changed since the last RTG-powered flight (the Voyager missions of the 1970s), and activists are concerned about a Chernobyl-style radioactive disaster, although the plutonium 238 at the heart of Galileo’s power supply (and that of other interplanetary probes that have used it) is non-weapons-grade and non-fissible. Galileo is slated to be launched in a week aboard the space shuttle Atlantis.

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STS-34

  • October 18, 1989

AtlantisSpace Shuttle Atlantis lifts off on a mission lasting nearly five days, whose primary goal is to lift the interplanetary probe Galileo into orbit. Originally intended for launch in late 1982, Galileo is bound for Jupiter by way of a long, looping trajectory that sends it to Venus and back to Earth multiple times, picking up speed via gravitational assist with each visit. Galileo won’t actually reach Jupiter itself until December 1995. Aboard Atlantis for this flight are Commander Donald Williams, Pilot Michael McCulley, and mission specialists Franklin Chang-Diaz, Shannon Lucid, and Ellen S. Baker.

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Television

Superboy: Metallo

  • October 21, 1989

SuperboyThe 29th episode of the syndicated series Superboy, starring Gerard Christopher and Stacy Haiduk, airs. The episode is written by Eisner Award-winning comic writers Mike Carlin (currently editor of DC’s Superman comics) and Andy Helfer.

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Star Trek: TNG: The Bonding

  • October 23, 1989

Star Trek: The Next GenerationThe week-long national syndication window opens for the 52nd episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. This is the first televised script written by Star Trek fan (and future Battlestar Galactica remake showrunner) Ronald D. Moore, who pitched stories to the series via the unique “spec script” program which accepted scripts written by unagented writers.

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Superboy: Young Dracula

  • October 28, 1989

SuperboyThe 30th episode of the syndicated series Superboy, starring Gerard Christopher and Stacy Haiduk, airs. Lloyd Bochner guest stars in an episode co-written by comics writer Cary Bates and producer Ilya Salkind.

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