Film Score Monthly releases Alan Silvestri’s soundtrack from the TV series CHiPS, focusing on highlights from the second season. 
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Film Score Monthly releases Alan Silvestri’s soundtrack from the TV series CHiPS, focusing on highlights from the second season.
Impressed with the progress shown by the commercial spaceflight industry, NASA signs agreements with SpaceX, a venture started by PayPal founder Elon Musk, and Oklahoma-based Rocketplane Kistler (RPK) to begin developing spacecraft that can deliver cargo and, later, astronauts to the International Space Station. RPK’s bid eventually collapses in financial scandal, though SpaceX goes on to create Dragon, the first privately-funded vehicle to visit the ISS in 2012.
The 199th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Claudia Black, Beau Bridges, and Michael Shanks. (The numbering works only in syndication and reruns, where Children Of The Gods is broken into two episodes.)
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 46th episode of Stargate Atlantis. Richard Dean Anderson (Stargate SG-1) and Alan Ruck (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Twister) guest star.
Sci-Fi Channel airs the sixth episode of the quirky modern-day science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson, Debrah Farentino, Joe Morton, and Matt Frewer. (In the UK and elsewhere, this series is retitled A Town Called Eureka.)
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 47th episode of Stargate Atlantis. Robert Davi guest stars.
The trade paperback collection Powers: Who Killed Retro Girl? is published.
Soundtrack specialty label Intrada releases a 2-CD limited edition set of soundtrack music from the 1980s anthology series Amazing Stories, featuring music by Jerry Goldsmith, David Newman, Craig Safan, Bruce Broughton, and other composers. This is the second volume of three collections of music from Amazing Stories.
Sci-Fi Channel airs the seventh episode of the quirky modern-day science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson, Debrah Farentino, Joe Morton, and Matt Frewer. (In the UK and elsewhere, this series is retitled A Town Called Eureka.)
Big Finish Productions releases the 85th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy and Bonnie Langford.
TV Eyes releases its self-titled debut album. The ’80s-styled album is the combination of the talents of Brian Reitzell and former Jellyfish members Roger Joseph Manning Jr. and Jason Falkner.
Essential Records releases the seventh Jars Of Clay album, Good Monsters, featuring the single “Dead Man (Carry Me)”.
The first webisode of Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance, a serialized story set immediately prior to the third season of Ronald D. Moore’s re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica, premieres on the Sci-Fi Channel’s website, an early streaming video experiement for the network that also promotes the show’s upcoming return.
Sci-Fi Channel airs the eighth episode of the quirky modern-day science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson, Debrah Farentino, Joe Morton, and Matt Frewer. (In the UK and elsewhere, this series is retitled A Town Called Eureka.)
The second webisode of Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance, a serialized story set immediately prior to the third season of Ronald D. Moore’s re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica, premieres on the Sci-Fi Channel’s website.
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 48th episode of Stargate Atlantis. Amanda Tapping (Stargate SG-1) guest stars.
Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off for its first spaceflight, and the first normal International Space Station construction mission, in four years. A new truss section with more 240-foot solar power panels is added to the station over the course of three spacewalks, each lasting at least six hours. Aboard Atlantis for this flight are Commander Brent Jett, Pilot Christopher Ferguson, and mission specialists Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, Joe Tanner, Daniel Burbank, and Steven MacLean.
Epic Records releases a remastered and expanded edition of the Electric Light Orchestra album On The Third Day.
Epic Records releases a remastered and expanded edition of the Electric Light Orchestra album Face The Music.
Cordless Recordings releases ex-Jellyfish member Roger Joseph Manning Jr.’s debut solo album The Land Of Pure Imagination in the U.S. (a version of this album with a different track listing was released earlier in the year in Japan).
The third webisode of Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance, a serialized story set immediately prior to the third season of Ronald D. Moore’s re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica, premieres on the Sci-Fi Channel’s website.
Sci-Fi Channel airs the ninth episode of the quirky modern-day science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson, Debrah Farentino, Joe Morton, and Matt Frewer. (In the UK and elsewhere, this series is retitled A Town Called Eureka.)
The fourth webisode of Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance, a serialized story set immediately prior to the third season of Ronald D. Moore’s re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica, premieres on the Sci-Fi Channel’s website.
The 202nd episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Claudia Black, Beau Bridges, and Michael Shanks.
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 49th episode of Stargate Atlantis.
The fourteenth full-time crew of the International Space Station lifts off from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard Soyuz TMA-9. Mikhail Tyurin and Michael López-AlegrÃa take up residence on the ISS for 215 days; with the American space shuttle fleet back in action, longer ISS stays with larger crews are once again possible.. Arriving with them on the ISS for a nine-day stay is Iranian-born telecommunications entrepreneur (and Ansari X-Prize founder) Anousheh Ansari, who returns to Earth aboard Soyuz TMA-8 with the Expedition 13 crew. Like other “space tourists” before her, she has paid for her own Soyuz seat and mission training.
ZTT releases the Art of Noise box set And What Have You Done With My Body, God?, gathering familiar tracks and rarities and deep cuts from the group’s early years.
The fifth webisode of Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance, a serialized story set immediately prior to the third season of Ronald D. Moore’s re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica, premieres on the Sci-Fi Channel’s website.
Sci-Fi Channel airs the tenth episode of the quirky modern-day science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson, Debrah Farentino, Joe Morton, and Matt Frewer. (In the UK and elsewhere, this series is retitled A Town Called Eureka.)
Soundtrack specialty label Intrada releases Elmer Bernstein’s soundtrack from the oddball 1980 Kirk Douglas sci-fi vehicle Saturn 3. This is the first release of the movie’s soundtrack, with the master tapes having spent most of the intervening years being unaccounted for.