Year: 2019

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Deaths Matters of Life & Death

Luke Perry, actor, dies

  • March 4, 2019

Luke Perry as JeremiahActor Luke Perry, at the time a current regular on the CW’s Riverdale series and a former teen heartthrob from his years as one of the stars of Fox’s Beverly Hills 90210 throughout the 1990s, dies at the age of 52 several days after suffering from a major stroke. Among his many high-profile series roles were HBO’s acclaimed prison drama Oz, and the starring role in Jeremiah, Showtime’s early 21st century adaptation of a popular post-apocalyptic comic book, adapted by Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski. He also had a minor part in the 1997 genre cult classic The Fifth Element, and was one of the stars of the 1992 movie Buffy The Vampire Slayer, upon which the later TV series was based. His first TV role – albeit uncredited – was in an episode of 1982’s short-lived time travel series Voyagers!.

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Star Trek Television

Star Trek: Discovery: If Memory Serves

  • March 7, 2019

Star Trek: DiscoveryStreaming service CBS All Access releases the 23rd episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Melissa George (Roar, Alias, Heartbeat), Alan Van Sprang (Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments, The Tudors), and Ethan Peck (10 Things I Hate About You) guest star in an episode which hearkens back heavily to the original Star Trek series pilot, The Cage.

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Beresheet Uncrewed Spaceflight

Beresheet attempts to land on the moon

  • April 11, 2019

BeresheetThe Israeli-built Beresheet uncrewed experimental lunar lander, during its attempt to land on the moon, loses engine power during descent and plummets toward the lunar surface. Though the main engine is believed to have restarted during that descent, the vehicle is too low to make a survivable landing and crashes on the moon. The Google Lunar X Prize committee awards $1,000,000 to SpaceIL, the Israeli space exploration organization founded specifically to launch the Beresheet mission, and the mission’s backers vow to use the prize to build a second Beresheet lander to attempt to complete the original vehicle’s mission.

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Crewed Spaceflight Deaths Matters of Life & Death Skylab Space Shuttle

Owen K. Garriott, astronaut, dies

  • April 15, 2019

Owen K. GarriottSkylab and Space Shuttle astronaut Owen K. Garriott dies at the age of 88. Born in Oklahoma, former U.S. Navy electronics officer Garriott went on to Stanford University to pursue a doctorate, and returned to Stanford to teach physics and electronics until 1965, when he was selected by NASA as one of the first “scientist astronauts” for future Apollo and Apollo Applications Program missions. (Only one scientist astronaut, Harrison Schmitt, flew to the moon before the Apollo program’s budgetary lunar wings were clipped by the Nixon administration.) Garriott first flew to space in 1973 as part of the second Skylab long-duration crew, staying in orbit for a record-setting two months with his two crewmates, and flew as a mission specialist aboard the first Space Shuttle mission to carry the Spacelab laboratory module into orbit in 1983. Both before and after his second and final flight, he was involved in consulting on the ever-changing design for a planned space station, which, after many changes, evolved into the International Space Station. He was the father of Richard Garriott, designer of the Ultima computer adventure game series who later visited the ISS as a space tourist aboard a Soyuz flight; they were the first father/son astronauts in America (preceded only by cosmonauts Alexander and Sergei Volkov).

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Franchises Television

Star Trek: Discovery: Such Sweet Sorrow Part 2

  • April 18, 2019

Star Trek: DiscoveryStreaming service CBS All Access releases the 29th episode of Star Trek: Discovery, closing out the series’ second season and marking Anson Mount’s final appearance as a series regular in this particular Star Trek spinoff. Tig Notaro, Rebecca Romjin (X-Men, The Librarians), Michelle Yeoh, and Ethan Peck (10 Things I Hate About You) guest star.

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Crewed Spaceflight SpaceX Dragon

SpaceX Crew Dragon explodes in pad test

  • April 20, 2019

Crew DragonHaving already visited and returned from the International Space Station in a successful uncrewed test flight, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon is set up for a critical ground test of its launch abort system, utilizing the capsule’s built-in SuperDraco engines – and explodes. While no injuries result from the explosion, the major setback results in delays to the Crew Dragon program, which would have flown the first astronauts from American soil since 2011 by the end of 2019 if all had gone as planned. SpaceX does not publicly discuss the specifics of the incident for well over a week until a company spokesman is repeatedly asked by the press about it at a publicity event for an uncrewed Falcon rocket launch.

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Arrowverse (DC) Television

Arrow: Spartan

  • April 22, 2019

ArrowThe 157th episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Ernie Hudson (Ghostbusters) and Adrian Paul (Highlander) guest star.

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