Highlander: Nowhere To Run

HighlanderThe week-long national syndication window opens for the 21st episode of the fantasy series Highlander, starring Adrian Paul (War Of The Worlds), Alexandra Vandernoort, and Stan Kirsch, and based on the mythology created in the 1986 movie of the same name. Anthony Stewart Head (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) guest stars.

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Highlander: The Hunters

HighlanderThe week-long national syndication window opens for the 22nd episode of the fantasy series Highlander, starring Adrian Paul (War Of The Worlds), Alexandra Vandernoort, and Stan Kirsch, and based on the mythology created in the 1986 movie of the same name. Roger Daltrey of The Who guest stars in the first season finale.

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Magellan tests aerobraking at Venus

MagellanTo increase the accuracy of its gravity map of the planet Venus, NASA’s unmanned space probe Magellan conducts the first experimental aerobraking maneuvers to alter the shape its orbit to a near-circular shape. By dipping Magellan into the upper layers of the Venusian atmosphere, the spacecraft is slowed and its orbit is changed, but it is kept far enough from the denser lower layers of the atmosphere to avoid re-entry. Aerobraking will become more commonly used by future space probes at the planet Mars.

Honor Harrington: The Honor Of The Queen

Honor HarringtonBaen Books publishes the second novel in the Honor Harrington series, “The Honor Of The Queen” by David Weber. Written simultaneously with the first book (which was published two months prior), this novel introduces further complications and introduces Honor’s new home-away-from-home, the planet Grayson.

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Young Indiana Jones And The Phantom Train Of Doom

Young Indiana Jones ChroniclesThe 17th episode of George Lucas’ historical adventure series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles airs on ABC, starring Sean Patrick Flanery. Freddie Jones (Children Of The Stones, Dune), Julian Firth, and Mac MacDonald (Red Dwarf) guest star.

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Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Ireland, April 1916

Young Indiana Jones ChroniclesThe 18th episode of George Lucas’ historical adventure series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles airs on ABC, starring Sean Patrick Flanery. Susannah Doyle (Drop The Dead Donkey) and Richard Dormer (Game Of Thrones, Fortitude) guest star.

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In The Hands Of The Prophets

Star Trek: Deep Space NineThe week-long national syndication window opens for In The Hands Of The Prophets, the 19th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This episode closes Deep Space Nine’s first season, and sets up virtually all of the Bajoran political storylines that run through the remainder of the series. Louise Fletcher makes her first appearance as Vedek Winn, and Philip Anglim guest stars as Vedek Bareil. Read more

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (soundtrack)

Alien NationGNP Crescendo releases a CD of Dennis McCarthy’s from Emissary, the two-hour pilot episode of the syndicated science fiction series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The album includes both of the tracks included on the Theme From Star Trek: Deep Space Nine CD single released at the same time. Read more

Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Paris, September 1908

Young Indiana Jones ChroniclesThe 19th episode of George Lucas’ historical adventure series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles airs on ABC, starring Corey Carrier. Danny Webb (Our Friends In The North, Alien3, Humans) and Lukas Haas (Mars Attacks, Inception) guest star.

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STS-57

Space ShuttleNASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission lasting almost ten days to test the SPACEHAB pressurized lab module. A long-term exposure experiment is retrieved for ESA, though a spacewalk must be undertaken when its antennae fail to stow themselves away automatically for insertion into the cargo bay. Aboard Endeavour for her fourth flight into orbit are Commander Ronald Grabe, Pilot Brian Duffy, Payload Commander G. David Low, and mission specialists Nancy Sherlock, Peter Wisoff and Janice Voss.

International Space Station narrowly avoids cancellation

Space Station FreedomDespite plans having recently been expanded with international partnerships, including the Russian space program, the International Space Station comes within a single vote of being cancelled altogether in the United States House of Representatives. The measure to cancel the program is added to NASA’s authorization bill, which comes up for an annual vote; the measure is brought to the House floor by Indiana Democratic Rep. Tim Roemer and New Jersey Republican Rep. Richard Zimmer. Opposition to the space station comes in the form of budget concerns (the $9,000,000,000 already run up in research and construction is more than the total NASA expected to spend when it was directed to build, launch, and staff the station during the Reagan administration). Opponents of the station keep up their attempts to cancel it, however; a vote is later held for a bill that would strip NASA of station funding, effectively ending the program, and that vote also fails. The program survives by a wider margin in a later Senate vote as well. The same session of Congress does prove to be the end of another major scientific endeavour, the Superconducting Supercollider project already under construction in Texas.

Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Peking, March 1910

Young Indiana Jones ChroniclesThe 20th episode of George Lucas’ historical adventure series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles airs on ABC, starring Corey Carrier. Ping Wu (Seinfeld, Silicon Valley) guest stars.

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Buran grounded

BuranRussian President Boris Yeltsin brings an end to the secretive Soviet-era Buran project, which was the Soviet military’s answer to (and near-copy of) the American Space Shuttle fleet. Even though a second orbiter, Ptichka, is almost complete, and three others are in various stages of construction, Yeltsin and his advisors see no future for Buran and end the program as a cost-cutting measure. Due to its crash development and cost overruns, the Buran program has only launched a single unmanned shuttle on one orbital flight after the expenditure of the equivalent of $16,000,000,000.

Soyuz TM-17

Soyuz TM-17The Russian spacecraft Soyuz TM-17 lifts off from Kazakhstan, bound for space station Mir. Cosmonauts Vasili Tsibliyev, Aleksandr Serebrov replace the incumbent station crew, staying aboard Mir for 196 days, while Jean-Pierre Haigneré returns to Earth with the previous Mir crew aboard Soyuz TM-16 after a three-week stay. When the crew leaves Mir in January 1994, their departure is anything but routine, as Tsibliyev is unable to prevent a collision between Mir and the departing Soyuz.

Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Benares, January 1910

Young Indiana Jones ChroniclesThe 21st episode of George Lucas’ historical adventure series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles airs on ABC, starring Corey Carrier. John Wood (WarGames, Ladyhawke) guest stars.

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Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Paris, October 1916

Young Indiana Jones ChroniclesThe 22nd episode of George Lucas’ historical adventure series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles airs on ABC, starring Sean Patrick Flanery. Ian McDiarmid (Return Of The Jedi, Star Wars Episode I) and Jacqueline Pearce (Blake’s 7) guest star in an episode written by Carrie Fisher (Star Wars).

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Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Istanbul, September 1918

Young Indiana Jones ChroniclesThe 23rd episode of George Lucas’ historical adventure series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles airs on ABC, starring Sean Patrick Flanery. Peter First guest stars.

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Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Paris, May 1919

Young Indiana Jones ChroniclesThe 24th episode of George Lucas’ historical adventure series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles airs on ABC, starring Sean Patrick Flanery. Anna Massey and Douglas Henshall (Primeval) guest star; Cyril Cusack appears in his final screen role before his death.

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