Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 29th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s post-apocalyptic series Jeremiah. 
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Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 29th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s post-apocalyptic series Jeremiah.
Big Finish Productions releases the 52nd Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Paul McGann and India Fisher.
Oscar-winning sculptor, artist and model maker Wah Ming Chang was probably best known in SF circles for creating elaborate creatures for Star Trek (including the Horta, the alien face of Balok, and the tricorder props) and The Outer Limits. Chang also won the Oscar for special effects for George Pal’s film adaptation of The Time Machine. He also created costumes on such non-SF movies as The King And I and Cleopatra, for which he sculpted Elizabeth Taylor’s headdress. He was 86 years old.
Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 30th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s post-apocalyptic series Jeremiah.
Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 31st episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s post-apocalyptic series Jeremiah.
Big Finish Productions releases the one-off audio drama Doctor Who: Shada, which premiered on the BBCi website as an audio series with limited Flash animation. Paul McGann, Lalla Ward, John Leeson, and Andrew Sachs (Fawlty Towers) star.
Smithsonian Books publishes General Thomas Stafford’s non-fictional memoir of his time in NASA, “We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race“, co-written with Michael Cassutt. The book details Stafford’s involvement in several NASA missions, from the Gemini program through the high-profile flights of Apollo 10 to the moon and the international Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission.
The first of two new American Mars rovers lands successfully on the red planet. The Mars rover Spirit enters the Martian atmosphere (and cleaves a path right through a dust storm), deploying thick layers of airbags that allow it to bounce safely until landing upright. This is the same landing system employed by the Pathfinder mission in 1997, but the unmanned robot probe in this case is much more sophisticated. Among the primary scientific objectives of Spirit’s mission is to determine if water existed on the surface of Mars for a significant length of time. The Spirit rover will undergo a series of diagnostics and won’t begin its mobile mission for several days. Its identical twin, a rover named Opportunity, will land in three weeks.
Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 32nd episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s post-apocalyptic series Jeremiah.
The 143nd episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, and Christopher Judge.
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Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 33rd episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s post-apocalyptic series Jeremiah.
Big Finish Productions releases the 53rd Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Paul McGann, India Fisher, and Conrad Westmaas.
The 63nd episode of the prequel spinoff Star Trek: Enterprise airs on UPN.
The BBC announces that a private collector has returned part two of the mostly-missing twelve-part Doctor Who story, The Daleks’ Master Plan, to its archives. Last seen in late 1965, the episode has been in the possession of the former chief engineer of the competing Yorkshire Television network ever since the early ’70s – when he snatched it from the BBC archives (where he was a trainee at the time) rather than destroying it as ordered. The 25-minute episode, subtitled Day Of Armageddon, is handed over to the Doctor Who Restoration Team, which oversees the preservation and restoration of past episodes for DVD release.
The internet-based fan film Star Trek: New Voyages (later Phase II) releases its first full-length episode, Come What May. Shot with homemade sets, costumes and props in upstate New York, the attention-getting project is greeted with enthusiasm by fans and with consternation by CBS/Paramount, which still has a Star Trek series (Enterprise) on television. The New Voyages group, led by James Cawley, is permitted to continue as long as no profit is made from its use of the Star Trek name, setting a precedent for future fan productions. As the group’s productions improve, it eventually disowns this pilot episode as one of its “official” adventures.
The 144th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, and Christopher Judge.
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Tree Wave, a duo using vintage computer hardwar, releases the debut EP Cabana+. (Tree Wave member Paul Slocum is also the programmer of the Atari 2600 Synthcart, a homebrew application that turns the 2600 into a musical instrument.)
Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 34th and final episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s post-apocalyptic series Jeremiah.
JPL engineers begin experiencing severe difficulty communicating with the Spirit Mars rover, which had successfully rolled off of its landing platform the previous week. Just as the rover is ready to begin its travels on the surface of Mars, it stops communicating with Earth, or with any orbiting spacecraft overhead. A command is transmitted to force Spirit to report its condition, and the resulting telemetry indicates that the rover has been continuously rebooting its internal computer system. By the weekend, after worries and warnings that Spirit would probably never regain 100% functionality, JPL’s engineers re-establish communications and received enough diagnostic information to narrow the problem down to Spirit’s flash memory and handling software. Engineers soon resolve the problem, transmitting instructions to work around the potentially corrupted memory, and restoring Spirit so it can continue its exploration.
The 64th episode of the prequel spinoff Star Trek: Enterprise airs on UPN. Jeffrey Combs guest stars.
The 145th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, and Christopher Judge. Corin Nemec makes his final Stargate appearance in an episode he co-wrote.
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The Opportunity rover, identical to Spirit, lands on schedule and on target in Mars’ Meridiani Planum region, but initial readings from the surface of Mars indicate that the landing pod containing Opportunity has come to rest on its side. Telemetry signals from Opportunity announce that the the rover has arrived safely and intact, ready to begin its mission, and the opening of the landing vehicle returns Opportunity to its intended upright position. As with Spirit, Opportunity will remain on its landing platform for several days undergoing a series of diagnostic tests before rolling off to the Martian surface for independent exploration, and engineers are keeping a close eye out for signs of a computer problem that has plagued Spirit for several days.
The 146th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, and Christopher Judge.
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The 65th episode of the prequel spinoff Star Trek: Enterprise airs on UPN.
The 147th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, and Christopher Judge.
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The 66th episode of the prequel spinoff Star Trek: Enterprise airs on UPN.
Big Finish Productions releases the 54th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Paul McGann, India Fisher, and Conrad Westmaas.
The 148th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, and Christopher Judge.
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The 67th episode of the prequel spinoff Star Trek: Enterprise airs on UPN.
La-La Land Records releases the soundtrack CD from the two-part Sci-Fi Channel miniseries rebooting Battlestar Galactica, with music by Richard Gibbs and Bear McCreary. The music from the miniseries sets the template for the scoring of the early episodes of the weekly series, though the musical style of the show expands rapidly under the direction of McCreary (Gibbs opts not to return for the series).