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Escape From Jupiter: Stake Out

Escape From JupiterThe seventh episode of Escape From Jupiter airs on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Co-produced by ABC and Japanese network NHK, this children’s sci-fi series stars Steve Bisley (Mad Max).

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Star Trek Television

Star Trek: TNG: All Good Things…

Star Trek: The Next GenerationThe week-long national syndication window opens for the 176th and final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Guest stars for the two-hour sendoff include John de Lancie, Denise Crosby and Andreas Katsulas (Babylon 5). The heavily-hyped episode goes on to win a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.

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Escape From Jupiter: Asteroids

Escape From JupiterThe ninth episode of Escape From Jupiter airs on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Co-produced by ABC and Japanese network NHK, this children’s sci-fi series stars Steve Bisley (Mad Max).

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Star Trek: DS9: The Jem’Hadar

Star Trek: Deep Space NineThe week-long national syndication window opens for the 45th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This episode ends the second season, and introduces the threat of the Dominion and their Jem’Hadar soldiers for the first time. (The Vorta, the Dominion’s strategists, are also seen for the first time.)

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Escape From Jupiter: Christmas

Escape From JupiterThe tenth episode of Escape From Jupiter airs on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Co-produced by ABC and Japanese network NHK, this children’s sci-fi series stars Steve Bisley (Mad Max).

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Escape From Jupiter: Decoy

Escape From JupiterThe 11th episode of Escape From Jupiter airs on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Co-produced by ABC and Japanese network NHK, this children’s sci-fi series stars Steve Bisley (Mad Max).

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Escape From Jupiter: Misfire

Escape From JupiterThe 12th episode of Escape From Jupiter airs on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Co-produced by ABC and Japanese network NHK, this children’s sci-fi series stars Steve Bisley (Mad Max).

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Crewed Spaceflight Mir Soyuz

Soyuz TM-19

Soyuz TM-19Soyuz TM-19 lifts off from Kazakhstan, on a mission to the Russian space station Mir with cosmonauts Yuri Malenchenko and Talgat Musabayev aboard. Over the course of their 125-day stay, the crew joins Dr. Valery Polyakov aboard Mir, in the middle of his record-shattering 437-day stay in space. Malenchenko and Musabayev conduct 11 hours worth of spacewalks to repair Mir’s exterior insulation and other minor maintenance, and returns home in November 1994 with German astronaut Ulf Merbold.

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Deke! U.S. Manned Space From Mercury to the Shuttle

Forge Books posthumously publishes astronaut Deke Slayton’s non-fictional memoir of his time in NASA, “Deke! U.S. Manned Space From Mercury to the Shuttle“, co-written with Michael Cassutt. The book details Slayton’s selection to the Mercury ground and his subsequent medical grounding, his time in charge of NASA’s astronaut office, and his eventual flight aboard the international Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission.

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Escape From Jupiter: Rescue

Escape From JupiterThe 13th episode of Escape From Jupiter airs on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Co-produced by ABC and Japanese network NHK, this children’s sci-fi series stars Steve Bisley (Mad Max). The story is continued in the 1997 series Return To Jupiter.

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Babylon 5: Grail

Babylon 5The week-long national syndication window opens for the 15th episode of Babylon 5. David Warner (Tron, Time Bandits, Star Trek VI) and William Sanderson (Blade Runner, Newhart) guest star. Thanks in part to its mid-season debut, this is one of several episodes of Babylon 5 aired during the usually-ignored July ratings sweep, an unusual move for any series, syndicated or network.

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Columbia Crewed Spaceflight Space Shuttle

STS-65

Space ShuttleSpace Shuttle Columbia is launched on the 63rd mission of the shuttle program. For two weeks, Columbia’s crew participates in the second IML (International Microgravity Laboratory) flight, conducting experiments relying on zero G around the clock. Columbia is also in orbit during the 25th anniversary of Apollo 11, the moon landing mission whose command/service module was also named Columbia. Aboard for Columbia’s 17th flight are Commander Robert Cabana, Pilot James Halsell, Payload Commander Richard Hieb, mission specialists Carl Walz, Leroy Chiao and Donald Thomas, and payload specialist Chiaki Naito-Mukai, the first Japanese woman in space.

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Babylon 5: Eyes

Babylon 5The week-long national syndication window opens for the 16th episode of Babylon 5. Jeffrey Combs (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Enterprise) guest stars. Thanks in part to its mid-season debut, this is one of several episodes of Babylon 5 aired during the usually-ignored July ratings sweep, an unusual move for any series, syndicated or network.

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Jupiter eats a comet

Shoemaker-Levy 9Its collision with the solar system’s largest planet predicted over a year in advance, the fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 begin impacting Jupiter’s atmosphere in an astronomical event lasting six days. With Earth-based telescopes watching, as well as cameras and instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope, Galileo and even Voyager 2, huge explosions are witnessed as the cometary chunks slam into Jupiter’s southern hemisphere at over 200,000 miles per hour, leaving dark “scars” larger than the diameter of Earth visible on the planet’s atmosphere and releasing more heat than the surface of the sun. Galileo is still over a year away from arriving at Jupiter.

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Babylon 5’s new commander

Bruce BoxleitnerMonths after the departure of Babylon 5‘s lead actor, Michael O’Hare, is announced, his replacement is revealed: actor Bruce Boxleitner (Tron, Scarecrow & Mrs. King) has been tapped to play the newly-created character of Captain John Sheridan, a veteran of the Earth-Minbari War that nearly led to the extinction of the human race. Filming on the series’ eagerly anticipated second season is set to begin on August 10th.

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