Year: 1995

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Hubble Space Telescope Science & Technology Uncrewed Spaceflight

Hubble’s “pillars of creation”

  • November 2, 1995

Hubble Space TelescopeThe Hubble Space Telescope, observing M16 (also known as the Eagle Nebula), takes what may be its most famous image: towering clouds of rapidly-evaporating interstellar gas which scientists theorize are the birthplace of new stars. The huge, light-years-long hydrogen clouds are dubbed evaporating gaseous globules, or EGGs; astronomers also call the structure a stellar nursery. The image quickly becomes a mainstay of the media, making appearances in Babylon 5 and the movie Contact.

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Television X-Files

The X-Files: 2Shy

  • November 3, 1995

The X-FilesThe 55th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Timothy Carhart guest stars.

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Television

Babylon 5: Matters Of Honor

  • November 6, 1995

Babylon 5The week-long national syndication window opens for the 45th episode of Babylon 5, the first of the series’ third season. Jason Carter joins the cast as Marcus Cole. Tucker Smallwood and Kitty Swink guest star. With parent network PTEN reduced to a syndication service for Babylon 5 and Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, the “week of” syndication window is adjusted to the beginning of each week.

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Television

Deadly Games: The Car Mechanic

  • November 7, 1995

Deadly GamesThe eighth episode of science fiction series Deadly Games is broadcast on UPN, starring James Calvert, Cynthia Gibb, and Chrstopher Lloyd (Taxi, Back To The Future); Leonard Nimoy serves as the series’ executive producer. Mark Pellegrino guest stars.

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Atlantis Crewed Spaceflight Mir Space Shuttle

STS-74: Atlantis returns to Mir

  • November 12, 1995

Space ShuttleNASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on the 73rd shuttle flight, an eight-day mission to dock with Russian space station Mir. Due to the docking difficulties of the first flight – which required Mir crew members to move one of their station’s modules out of the shuttle’s way temporarily – Atlantis carries a Russian-made docking adapter which adds a tunnel to one of Mir’s docking ports, allowing the shuttle to join up with the station without further module relocation. Atlantis carries Commander Kenneth Cameron, Pilot James Halsell, and mission specialists Jerry Ross, William McArthur and Chris Hadfield to visit Mir; there is no crew exchange on this flight.

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Television

Babylon 5, take 2

  • November 13, 1995

Babylon 5Cable channel TNT buys a package of reruns, presuming a three-season, 66-episode run, of the science fiction series Babylon 5, to begin airing in 1998. As TNT and PTEN are both owned by Warner Bros., the deal is seen as an “inside trade” among corporate siblings for a series unlikely to have a wide market for buyers in rerun form. Unknown to anyone at the time, this deal will have a major impact on the series’ future, particularly when the PTEN network begins to fall apart.

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Television

Deadly Games: The Divorce Lawyer

  • November 14, 1995

Deadly GamesThe ninth episode of science fiction series Deadly Games is broadcast on UPN, starring James Calvert, Cynthia Gibb, and Chrstopher Lloyd (Taxi, Back To The Future); Leonard Nimoy serves as the series’ executive producer. Victoria Rowell guest stars.

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