Big Finish Productions releases the 143rd Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker and Maggie Stables. 
Big Finish Productions releases the 143rd Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker and Maggie Stables.
Big Finish Productions releases the 32nd episode of the new Eighth Doctor Who audio dramas, starring Paul McGann and Sheridan Smith.
Forever known as the Brigadier (and thus the only ranking UNIT officer who counts), actor Nicholas Courtney dies at the age of 81, the only actor to have appeared alongside every Doctor in Doctor Who. After appearing as a one-off guest character in the Hartnell era, Courtney is drafted into the role of Colonel Lethbridge Stewart for a 1968 Doctor Who story, proving popular enough to return the following season with a promotion to Brigadier. In this role, Courtney guest starred with every television Doctor (including, thanks to a cameo in a 1993 charity skit, Colin Baker); he would also appear alonside Paul McGann in a Big Finish audio play, a medium that also saw him appearing with David Tennant, years before being cast as the tenth Doctor. Courtney would play the role for Big Finish several times, and even reprised the Brigadier in a 1995 fan-made video production, before bringing the character back in a two-part episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures.
Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off on the 133rd shuttle flight, a 13-day mission add a new (but familiar) module to the International Space Station. One of the logistics modules that has flown in the cargo bay of seven prior shuttle missions is attached to the ISS permanently, adding nearly 2,500 cubic feet of storage space to the facility. Also delivered to the station is Robonaut 2, an experimental robot designed to assist with routine tasks as well as spacewalks. Discovery’s 39th and final crew is Commander Steve Lindsey, Pilot Eric Boe, and mission specialists Alvin Drew, Nicole Stott, Steve Bowen and Michael Barratt.
Big Finish Productions releases the 144th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker and Maggie Stables.
Big Finish Productions releases the 33rd episode of the new Eighth Doctor Who audio dramas, starring Paul McGann and Sheridan Smith.
The U.S. Air Force launches a second unmanned X-37B spacecraft into Earth orbit atop an Atlas V rocket. Designated USA-226, this is the second Boeing-built X-37B to reach orbit, and is the first to remain in orbit for over a year, re-entering the atmosphere and successfully conducting an automated landing in June 2012. This X-37B also features a solar panel array that is deployed from its cargo compartment, allowing it to generate constant power during its classified 15-month mission.
The short Doctor Who sketch Space / Time, starring Matt Smith, Karel Gillan and Arthur Darvill, airs during the BBC’s annual Comic Relief charity telethon.
A two-part Doctor Who sketch airs as part of the BBC’s Comic Relief telethon. Featuring only series regulars Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill, the mini-adventure runs around eight minutes in length.
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Silva Screen Records releases Murray Gold’s soundtrack music from the 2010 Doctor Who Christmas special, A Christmas Carol. This is the first time in the revived series that a single episode has gotten an individual soundtrack release; Katherine Jenkins’ song “Abigail’s Song (Silence Is All You Know)” is inclucded.
Big Finish Productions releases the 145th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker and Maggie Stables.
Big Finish Productions releases the 34th and final episode of the new Eighth Doctor Who audio dramas, starring Paul McGann and Sheridan Smith; the eighth Doctor’s adventures will continue in a series of boxed sets, beginning with Dark Eyes in 2012.
Part of the 27th full-time crew of the International Space Station lifts off from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard Soyuz TMA-21. Aleksandr Samokutyayev, Andrei Borisenko and Ron Garan take up residence on the ISS for 164 days, becoming part of the Expedition 27/28 crews. All three return to Earth in September 2011 aboard the same vehicle.
Perseverance Records releases the late Elmer Bernstein‘s score from the 1989 sci-fi film Slipstream.
NASA announces the results of a bidding process for soon-to-be-retired Space Shuttle vehicles by institutions across the country. The original test vehicle, Enterprise, will be removed from the Smithsonian and replaced by the space-flown Discovery, while Atlantis will become the centerpiece of a new exhibit at NASA’s own Kennedy Space Center. Endeavour will be handed over to the California Science Museum in Los Angeles, while Enterprise’s new home will be in New York City’s Intrepid Museum. Institutions not selected to receive one of the shuttles, including NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, almost immediately claim that the selection process has been swayed by politics. None of the vehicles will be transported from Kennedy Space Center to their new locations until the following year.
The internet-based fan film Star Trek: Phase II releases its seventh full-length episode, Enemy: Starfleet!. BarBara Luna guest stars.
Actress Elisabeth Sladen, possibly the performer who has maintained the longest on-screen association with a Doctor Who character in the history of the franchise, dies at the age of 65. In 1973, the producers of Doctor Who had hired another actress to play the part of new companion Sarah Jane Smith, only to meet with strenuous objections from series lead Jon Pertwee. Elisabeth Sladen was then cast in the part, continuing to play Sarah Jane through 1976, one of the longest-running companions in the original series. Numerous times she had been approached to reprise her role, only agreeing to do so in 1981 in her own spinoff, K-9 & Company, which never made it past the pilot stage. After reprising the role of Sarah Jane for Big Finish’s audio spinoff series centered around the character, she was asked to play the part again – on television – alongside David Tennant, sparking new interest in the character and ultimately leading to her own spinoff series, The Sarah Jane Adventures. Filming of the fifth season of that series had been put on hold while she was admitted to the hospital.
The 773rd episode of Doctor Who (the 75th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1, beginning the sixth season of the revived series. The episode sets up a time-bending paradox and guest stars Alex Kingston, Mark Sheppard (Battlestar Galactica) and W. Morgan Sheppard (Max Headroom), and introduces a new enemy, the Silents.
Actor William Campbell, who guest starred as Koloth the Klingon in the classic Star Trek fan favorite The Trouble With Tribbles (and reprised the role in the much later Deep Space Nine epsiode Blood Oath), and played the Q-like Trelaine in The Squire Of Gothos, dies at the age of 84.
Big Finish Productions releases the Doctor Who: The Lost Stories audio drama Thin Ice, audio versions of scripts that were intended for, but never produced by, Doctor Who on television. Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred star in a story originally intended for the unmade 1990 season of Doctor Who.
Big Finish Productions releases the 146th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton, and Mark Strickson.
The 774th episode of Doctor Who (the 76th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1, guest starring Alex Kingston and Mark Sheppard.
The 775th episode of Doctor Who (the 77th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1, guest starring Hugh Bonneville.
Milan Records releases the soundtrack from the movie Another Earth, with music by electronica group Fall On Your Sword (co-founded by LCD Soundsystem’s Phil Mossman).
The 776th episode of Doctor Who (the 78th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1, guest starring Suranne Jones. The episode is written by novelist and comics writer Neil Gaiman, and the script had originally been intended for the previous season.
Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off on its final flight into orbit, carrying an alpha magnetic spectrometer instrument and supplies to the International Space Station during a 16-day mission. This is Endeavour’s 25th and final launch. The crew for this mission consists of Commander Mark Kelly, Pilot Greg Johnson, and mission specialists Mike Fincke, Drew Feustel, Greg Chamitoff and Roberto Vittori.
The 777th episode of Doctor Who (the 79th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. This is the first part of a two-part story.
The 778th episode of Doctor Who (the 80th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. This is the conclusion of a two-part story.
Big Finish Productions releases the Doctor Who: The Lost Stories audio drama Crime Of The Century, audio versions of scripts that were intended for, but never produced by, Doctor Who on television. Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred star in a story originally intended for the unmade 1990 season of Doctor Who.
Big Finish Productions releases the 147th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton, and Mark Strickson.