Year: 2000

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Atlantis Crewed Spaceflight International Space Station Space Shuttle

STS-101

  • May 19, 2000

Space ShuttleCarrying over 3,000 pounds of supplies for future station crews, Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off on a ten-day mission to the International Space Station. The supplies include exercise equipment and general housekeeping gear; Atlantis boosts the still-under-construction vacant station’s orbit by 27 miles. Aboard Atlantis for her 20th flight are Commander James Halsell, Pilot Scott “Doc” Horowitz, and mission specialists Mary Ellen Weber, Jeff Williams, James Voss, Susan Helms and Yury Usachev.

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Television X-Files

The X-Files: Requiem

  • May 21, 2000

The X-FilesThe 161st episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. William B. Davis and Nicholas Lea guest star in an episode that revisits the events of the series premiere.

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Television

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Restless

  • May 23, 2000

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 78th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. James Marsters, Anthony Stewart Head, and Alyson Hannigan also star. Armin Shimerman (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest stars in the fourth season finale.

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Music

Logan’s Sanctuary

  • June 13, 2000

Logan's SanctuaryThe CD Logan’s Sanctuary is released, a mostly-instrumental album billed as the soundtrack to a Logan’s Run sequel that was never filmed (though neither the title, nor the storyline in the liner notes booklet, corresponds to either of the sequel novels written by William F. Nolan). The album is the combination of the talents of Brian Reitzell and former Jellyfish member Roger Joseph Manning Jr.; fellow ex-Jellyfish member Jason Falkner also contributes.

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Television

The Outer Limits: Abaddon

  • July 7, 2000

The Outer LimitsShowtime airs the 121st episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series. Keith David (They Live, The Thing) and Corbin Bernsen (L.A. Law) guest star.

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Crewed Spaceflight International Space Station

ISS: Zvezda module launched

  • July 12, 2000

ISSThe third major piece of the International Space Station, the Mir-derived Zvezda service module, is launched from Russia. Once in orbit, automatic systems guide Zvezda toward rendezvous and docking with the combined Zarya and Unity modules that currently comprise the station. Zvezda adds life support systems and living quarters, as well as additional power-generating solar panels, to the station, completing the most basic building blocks necessary for ongoing occupation.

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Television

The Outer Limits: The Grid

  • July 14, 2000

The Outer LimitsShowtime airs the 122nd episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series. D.B. Sweeney (Strange Luck) and Jessica Steen (Captain Power) guest star.

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The Outer Limits: Revival

  • July 21, 2000

The Outer LimitsShowtime airs the 123rd episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series. Gary Busey and Margot Kidder (Superman: The Movie) guest star.

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The Outer Limits: Gettysburg

  • July 28, 2000

The Outer LimitsShowtime airs the 124th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series. Joshua Leonard (The Blair Witch Project) and Meat Loaf (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) guest star.

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Deaths Matters of Life & Death Movies Star Wars

Sir Alec Guinness, Star Wars actor, dies

  • August 6, 2000

Sir Alec GuinnessSir Alec Guinness, best known to SF fans as Obi-Wan Kenobi, dies at the age of 86. He was a working actor for over six decades, though directors had to beg him into participating in his two best-known outings – Star Wars and The Bridge Over The River Kwai; indeed, in recent years, he has made his disdain for the former project very well known to any fans who dared to ask. Reports around the time of his death indicated that Sir Alec Guinness has been suffering from liver cancer. He is survived by his wife and son.