Sci-Fi Channel airs the 49th episode of Ronald D. Moore’s re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica. 
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Sci-Fi Channel airs the 49th episode of Ronald D. Moore’s re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica.
The 17th episode of Tim Kring’s sci-fi/superhero series Heroes airs on NBC, starring Adrian Pasdar, Jack Coleman, Ali Larter, Masi Oka, Hayden Panettiere, and Milo Ventimiglia. George Takei (Star Trek), Christopher Eccleston (Doctor Who) and Eric Roberts (Doctor Who) guest star.
Big Finish Productions releases the 92nd Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred.
NASA’s New Horizons probe, on a one-way trip to become the first probe to swing past distant Pluto, picks up speed dramatically as it slingshots past Jupiter. New Horizons sensors are trained on the giant planet to get the first look at Jupiter since Galileo swan-dived into its crushing atmosphere. New Horizons gains nearly 9,000 miles per hour as it swings past Jupiter, which will put it at Pluto in July 2015. New Horizons’ camera catches an erupting volcano on Jupiter’s moon Io, spewing material 200 miles above the surface.
ABC airs the 57th episode of the J.J. Abrams-produced series Lost. Mira Furlan (Babylon 5) and Cheech Marin (of Cheech & Chong fame) guest star.
ITV premieres the fourth episode of the science fiction series Primeval.
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 50th episode of Ronald D. Moore’s re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica.
The 18th episode of Tim Kring’s sci-fi/superhero series Heroes airs on NBC, starring Adrian Pasdar, Jack Coleman, Ali Larter, Masi Oka, Hayden Panettiere, and Milo Ventimiglia. Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange) and Zachary Quinto (Star Trek) guest star.
ABC airs the 58th episode of the J.J. Abrams-produced series Lost. Mira Furlan (Babylon 5) and Andrew Divoff guest star.
Epic Records releases a remastered edition of the Alan Parsons Project‘s 1985 album Vulture Culture, featuring demos and previously unreleased material from the recording of the original album.
ITV premieres the fifth episode of the science fiction series Primeval.
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 51st episode of Ronald D. Moore’s re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica. Mark Sheppard guest stars.
ABC airs the 59th episode of the J.J. Abrams-produced series Lost. Mira Furlan (Babylon 5) and Andrew Divoff guest star.
ITV premieres the sixth episode of the science fiction series Primeval, bringing the show’s first season to a close.
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 52nd episode of Ronald D. Moore’s re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica. Mark Sheppard guest stars.
Epic Records releases an expanded, remastered edition of the Alan Parsons Project‘s 1977 album I Robot, with additional tracks from the original recording sessions.
Epic Records releases an expanded, remastered edition of the Alan Parsons Project‘s 1982 album Eye In The Sky, with additional tracks from the original recording sessions.
Epic Records releases a remastered and expanded edition of the Electric Light Orchestra album Balance Of Power.
ABC airs the 60th episode of the J.J. Abrams-produced series Lost. Mira Furlan (Babylon 5) and Nestor Carbonell guest star.
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 53rd episode of Ronald D. Moore’s re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica. Mark Sheppard guest stars. This episode concludes the third season; the fourth season doesn’t premiere until over a year later.
NASA reverses a decision made earlier in the month to cancel the asteroid-hopping Dawn mission, following appeals and assurances from the mission managers. Intended to use ion propulsion to visit to of the asteroid belt’s largest bodies, Dawn’s cancellation does have the effect of sliding the mission from a 2006 launch to a 2007 launch. The budget for the mission is expanded from $373,000,000 to $446,000,000, and arrival at its first target, the large asteroid Vesta, is still scheduled for 2011.
ABC airs the 61st episode of the J.J. Abrams-produced series Lost. Billy Dee Williams (The Empire Strikes Back) guest stars in an episode devoted to narratively disposing of much-derided new regular characters Nikki and Paulo.
Big Finish Productions releases the 93rd Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Peter Davison and Sarah Sutton.
The 727th episode of Doctor Who (the 29th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Freeman Agyeman, having played a very small guest role in the previous season’s finale, is introduced as new TARDIS traveler Martha Jones. This episode introduces the Judoon, a rhinoceros-like intergalactic police force which recurs in many future episodes.
Disco Mix Club Records releases a Back To Mine compilation album picked by Norwegian duo Röyksopp.
BBC1 airs the first segment of an animated Doctor Who adventure, The Infinite Quest, as part of the youth-oriented fan feedback series Totally Doctor Who. David Tennant, Freema Agyeman, and Anthony Stewart Head lead the voice cast. The full story, assembled into a single episode, will be made available later on DVD.
ABC airs the 62nd episode of the J.J. Abrams-produced series Lost. Kim Dickens guest stars.
ABC airs the 63rd episode of the J.J. Abrams-produced series Lost. Andrew Divoff and Nestor Carbonell guest star.
The fifteenth full-time crew of the International Space Station lifts off from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard Soyuz TMA-10. Oleg Kotov and Fyodor Yurchikhin take up residence on the ISS for 196 days. Arriving with them on the ISS for an 11-day stay is space tourist Charles Simonyi, a Microsoft software engineer (whose successes included such widely-used software as Microsoft Word and Excel), who returns to Earth aboard Soyuz TMA-9 with the Expedition 14 crew. Like other “space tourists” before him, he has paid for his own Soyuz seat and mission training. When Kotov and Yurchikhin return in October 2007, the Soyuz suffers a dangerous malfunction, failing to jettison its service module; the result is an off-balance spacecraft that re-enters the atmosphere nose-first, exposing under-insulated portions of the vehicle to the heat of re-entry. The crew manages a survivable landing, but news of the incident is kept quiet by the Russian space program until a similar mishap occurs aboard the next Soyuz flight.
The 728th episode of Doctor Who (the 30th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Dean Lennox Kelly guest stars.