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Babylon 5: Knives

Babylon 5The week-long national syndication window opens for the 39th episode of Babylon 5. Carmen Argenziano (Stargate SG-1) guest stars. This is the last Babylon 5 episode for three years to not be written by series creator J. Michael Straczynski, who sets an American television record by single-handedly writing the show’s next 52 episodes (53 if the series finale, filmed at the end of the fourth season, is included). Read more

Doctor Who: The New Adventures: Human Nature

Doctor WhoVirgin Publishing releases the 38th book in the Doctor Who: The New Adventures range, Human Nature by Paul Cornell. This book will be remade in the 21st century TV series as a heavily-reworked two-part story featuring the tenth Doctor rather than the seventh. Read more

The Outer Limits: Corner Of The Eye

The Outer LimitsPremium cable channel Showtime airs the ninth episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Len Cariou (Blue Bloods), Chris Sarandon (The Princess Bride, Fright Night), and Callum Keith Rennie (Battlestar Galactica) guest star.

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The X-Files: Anasazi

The X-FilesThe 49th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny, and Mitch Pileggi. Peter Donat (Time Trax), Nicholas Lea, and William B. Davis guest star in the second season finale.

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Spektr: expanding Mir anew

Mir / SpektrFor the first time in five years, and the first time under the auspices of the Russian Federation, a new module is launched to expand the Mir space station. Originally devised as an add-on compartment to house experiments and equipment of a military nature, the Spektr module is, somewhat ironically, refitted to house American astronauts who will be joining future Mir station crews. Spektr also doubles Mir’s power generating capacity with its own solar panels.

GOES-9 goes up

GOES-9NOAA’s GOES-9 Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite is launched from Cape Canaveral into a geosynchronous orbit now designated GOES-EAST to monitor weather patterns over the United States; its predecessor, GOES-8, remains in orbit in the GOES-WEST position. GOES-9’s hardware configuration is identical to that of GOES-8, and both suffer minor glitches which will be corrected prior to launch in the GOES-10 satellite. GOES-9 will remain in the GOES-EAST orbit until it is retired from active weather-watching duty in 1998 due to those hardware problems, though it will be pressed back into served and leased to Japan to replace one of that country’s weather satellites between 2003 and 2005. GOES-9 will finally be retired in 2007.

The Outer Limits: Under The Bed

The Outer LimitsPremium cable channel Showtime airs the tenth episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Timothy Busfield (Revenge Of The Nerds, thirtysomething) guest stars.

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The Outer Limits: Dark Matters

The Outer LimitsPremium cable channel Showtime airs the 11th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Annette O’Toole guest stars in an episode written by Alan Brennert.

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The Outer Limits: The Conversation

The Outer LimitsPremium cable channel Showtime airs the 12th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. John Savage (Fringe), Rebecca de Mornay (Risky Business, Jessica Jones), and William B. Davis (The X-Files) guest star.

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The Outer Limits: Quality Of Life

The Outer LimitsPremium cable channel Showtime airs the 13th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Robert Patrick (Terminator 2, The X-Files) and Nicole de Boer (Deepwater Black, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest star.

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STS-71: the shuttle docks at Mir

Space ShuttleSpace Shuttle Atlantis lifts off on an almost-ten-day mission to dock with the Russian space station Mir. The first docking proves to be a chore, as the Mir crew has to move one of the station’s modules to a different docking port to accomodate the shuttle. The historic docking – the first joint operation between the two countries since the Apollo-Soyuz mission almost exactly 20 years earlier – results in the largest man-made object in space to date. Aboard Atlantis are Commander Robert Gibson, Pilot Charles Precourt, and mission specialists Ellen Baker, Bonnie Dunbar and Gregory Harbaugh; cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin are transported to Mir aboard Atlantis to become part of Mir Expedition 19, while Expedition 18 crew members Norman Thagard, Vladimir Dezhurov and Gannady Strekalov return to Earth after more than three months aboard Mir.