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Crewed Spaceflight Discovery Space Shuttle

STS-56

STS-56Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off with the ATLAS-2 scientific payload for a nine-day mission. A free-floating platform to measure solar wind activity is also deployed and then retrieved before returning to Earth. Aboard Discovery for her 16th flight are Commander Kenneth Cameron, Pilot Stephen Oswald, and mission specialists Michael Foale, Kenneth Cockrell and Ellen Ochoa.

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Quantum Leap: Memphis Melody

Quantum LeapNBC airs the 94th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (Cowboy Bebop, Digimon, Star Wars: Rebels) guest stars.

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Highlander: The Lady And The Tiger

HighlanderThe week-long national syndication window opens for the 18th episode of the fantasy series Highlander, starring Adrian Paul (War Of The Worlds), Alexandra Vandernoort, and Stan Kirsch, and based on the mythology created in the 1986 movie of the same name. Elizabeth Gracen makes her first appearance as Amanda, another Immortal character.

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Columbia Crewed Spaceflight Space Shuttle

STS-55

Space ShuttleSpace Shuttle Columbia lifts off on a mission lasting nearly ten days, carrying the Spacelab laboratory module in its cargo bay. This flight, Spacelab D-2, includes medical and material experiments, with one experiment controlled by an Apple Macintosh computer carried into orbit. Amateur radio messages are exchanged with the crew of the Mir space station. Aboard Columbia for her 14th flight are Commander Steven Nagel, Pilot Terence Henricks, mission specialists Jerry Ross, Charles Precourt and Bernard Harris Jr., and payload specialists Ulrich Walter and Hans Schlegel.

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Quantum Leap: Mirror Image

Quantum LeapNBC airs the 95th and final episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Bruce McGill, Susan Diol, and W. Morgan Sheppard (Max Headroom) guest star in the series finale, for which alternate endings were filmed in the event that the series was picked up for a sixth season. Some in the show’s fanbase are unsatisfied with the ending imposed by NBC on the show. A follow-up series would premiere in 2022, but without the participation of Bakula or Stockwell (who died in 2021). Susan Diol does, however, reprise the role of Beth Calavicci in the 2022 series.

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Highlander: Nowhere To Run

HighlanderThe week-long national syndication window opens for the 21st episode of the fantasy series Highlander, starring Adrian Paul (War Of The Worlds), Alexandra Vandernoort, and Stan Kirsch, and based on the mythology created in the 1986 movie of the same name. Anthony Stewart Head (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) guest stars.

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Highlander: The Hunters

HighlanderThe week-long national syndication window opens for the 22nd episode of the fantasy series Highlander, starring Adrian Paul (War Of The Worlds), Alexandra Vandernoort, and Stan Kirsch, and based on the mythology created in the 1986 movie of the same name. Roger Daltrey of The Who guest stars in the first season finale.

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Magellan Uncrewed Spaceflight

Magellan tests aerobraking at Venus

MagellanTo increase the accuracy of its gravity map of the planet Venus, NASA’s unmanned space probe Magellan conducts the first experimental aerobraking maneuvers to alter the shape its orbit to a near-circular shape. By dipping Magellan into the upper layers of the Venusian atmosphere, the spacecraft is slowed and its orbit is changed, but it is kept far enough from the denser lower layers of the atmosphere to avoid re-entry. Aerobraking will become more commonly used by future space probes at the planet Mars.

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Star Trek Television

Star Trek: DS9: In The Hands Of The…

Star Trek: Deep Space NineThe week-long national syndication window opens for In The Hands Of The Prophets, the 19th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This episode closes Deep Space Nine’s first season, and sets up virtually all of the Bajoran political storylines that run through the remainder of the series. Louise Fletcher makes her first appearance as Vedek Winn, and Philip Anglim guest stars as Vedek Bareil.

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