Year: 2000

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The Outer Limits: Nest

  • August 18, 2000

The Outer LimitsShowtime airs the 127th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series. Robert Sean Leonard (House, Dead Poets’ Society) guest stars.

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The Outer Limits: Final Appeal

  • September 3, 2000

The Outer LimitsShowtime airs the 128th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series. Cicely Tyson, Robert Loggia, Hal Holbrook and Charlton Heston guest star in the sixth season finale. Showtime cancels the series, but it is picked up for a seventh and final season by the Sci-Fi Channel.

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Atlantis Crewed Spaceflight International Space Station Space Shuttle

STS-106: getting the place ready

  • September 8, 2000

Space ShuttleSpace Shuttle Atlantis lifts off on the 99th shuttle mission, a 12-day visit to the still-unoccupied International Space Station. Spacewalks and work in the station’s pressurized compartments make the final connections between the Russian-launched Zvezda service module and the rest of the station, and over three tons of supplies – most flown aboard Atlantis, but some contained in an unmanned Progress supply ship which has already automatically docked to the station – are transferred to the station. Atlantis’ 21st crew is Commander Terrence Wilcutt, Pilot Scott Altman, and mission specialists Daniel Burbank, Edward Lu, Richard Mastracchio, Yuri Malenchenko and Boris Morokov. In 2003, Lu and Malenchenko will return as the station’s seventh full-time residents.

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New Horizons Uncrewed Spaceflight

Pluto-Kuiper Express mission scuttled

  • September 22, 2000

PKEAfter four years of ballooning costs and launch weight, NASA brings work on the proposed Pluto-Kuiper Express mission to a stop, citing cost overruns and angering planetary scientists. The scientific community protests that, if a mission is not launched to reach Pluto by the year 2020, the tiny planet’s atmosphere will undergo a kind of reverse sublimation process, transitioning from a gas to a solid that rains down to Pluto’s surface. But with mission plans calling for a half-billion-dollar mission (originally budgeted for only $350 million), NASA pulls the plug, announcing that it will solicit new mission designs and plans from scientists around the world, even as advocates for the Pluto-Kuiper Express mission rally around the cancelled proposal.

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Buffy vs. Dracula

  • September 26, 2000

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 79th 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. Michelle Trachtenberg makes her first appearance as Dawn in the fifth season premiere.

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Real Me

  • October 3, 2000

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 80th 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. Amber Benson guest stars.

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Dark Angel

  • October 3, 2000

Dark AngelThe first episode of James Cameron & Charles H. Eglee’s cyberpunk series Dark Angel, starring Jessica Alba and Michael Weatherly, premieres on Fox. Though Cameron’s name is used to heavily promote the new series, the feature-length pilot is directed by David Nutter (The X-Files). Stanley Kamel (Monk) and John Savage guest star.

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Dark Angel: Heat

  • October 10, 2000

Dark AngelThe second episode of James Cameron & Charles H. Eglee’s cyberpunk series Dark Angel, starring Jessica Alba and Michael Weatherly, airs on Fox. John Savage guest stars.

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Crewed Spaceflight Discovery International Space Station Space Shuttle

STS-92: opening the ISS for business

  • October 11, 2000

Space ShuttleOn the 100th flight of the American shuttle program, Space Shuttle Discovery pays a 13-day visit to the International Space Station, making final preparations before the station’s first crew arrives. A new shuttle docking port is added, and the first section of external truss is bolted onto the station, the beginning of a structure that will support the larger solar power panels to be installed during later construction missions. Discovery’s 28th crew is Commander Brian Duffy, Pilot Pam Melroy, and mission specialists Koichi Wakata, Leroy Chiao, Peter Wisoff, Michael Lopez-Alegria and William McArthur.

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Out Of My Mind

  • October 17, 2000

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 82nd 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. Amber Benson guest stars.

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