Sony Records releases Ben Folds’ third solo album Way To Normal, featuring the single “You Don’t Know Me” (a collaboration with Regina Spektor). 
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Sony Records releases Ben Folds’ third solo album Way To Normal, featuring the single “You Don’t Know Me” (a collaboration with Regina Spektor).
China launches its third crewed space mission, Shenzhou 7, into Earth orbit. For the first time, a full complement of three taikonauts is aboard (Zhai Zhigang, Liu Boming, and Jing Haipeng), and in another Chinese space first, Zhigang and Boming exit the spacecraft for a 22-minute spacewalk. Also during this flight, Shenzhou 7 passes within 30 miles of the International Space Station, posing no hazard but raising security concerns from the United States government. Because the customary solar panels of the Shenzhou spacecraft have not been installed to allow for the spacewalk (and unobstructed television coverage of the spacewalk), the mission lasts only three days.
The 12th episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures airs CBBC, starring Elisabeth Sladen (Doctor Who). This is the second season premiere, featuring an enemy dating back to Sladen’s first Doctor Who appearance, the Sontarans.
The 13th episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures airs CBBC, starring Elisabeth Sladen (Doctor Who). Series regular Yasmin Paige departs at the end of this story.
Big Finish Productions releases the 113th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Peter Davison and Sarah Sutton.
Cartoon Network airs the first episode of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. This project is unrelated to – and canonically supersedes – the earlier series of Genndy Tartakovsky animated shorts.
Cartoon Network airs the second episode of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
The 14th episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures airs CBBC, starring Elisabeth Sladen (Doctor Who). Anjli Mohindra joins the series as a regular cast member.
Detected only 20 hours before, the meteoroid designated 2008 TC3 burns up and explodes in Earth’s atmosphere, exploding 23 miles above the Sudanese desert. Estimated to be over ten feet in diameter prior to losing most of its mass to heating in the Earth’s atmosphere, 2008 TC3 is thought to have weighed in at approximately 80 tons; hundred of fragments with a total weight of a little over 20 pounds are recovered from the desert. This is the first Near-Earth Object detected prior to impact or destruction by the NASA-funded Spaceguard survey, though the time between detection, confirmation and arrival is less than a day.
The fan-produced Star Trek production Star Trek: Intrepid releases a short vignette. The UK-based production is shot almost entirely in front of green screen with computer-generated backgrounds added in post production.
Cartoon Network airs the third episode of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
The eighteenth full-time crew of the International Space Station lifts off from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard Soyuz TMA-13. Yuri Lonchakov and Michael Fincke take up residence on the ISS for 199 days. Arriving with them on the ISS for a ten-day stay is space tourist and computer game mogul Richard Garriott (creator of the series of Ultima role-playing games, which feature his alter ego “Lord British” as their benevolent ruler), who returns to Earth aboard Soyuz TMA-11 with the Expedition 16 crew. Like other “space tourists” before him, Garriott pays for his own Soyuz seat and mission training. While aboard, Garriott films Apogee Of Fear, which he later calls “the first science fiction film actually filmed in space”, with the help of his crewmates; NASA later objects to the movie when it discovers that its astronauts were recruited as actors and crew. Obviously bitten by the space acting bug, Fincke would later guest star in an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise.
The 15th episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures airs CBBC, starring Elisabeth Sladen (Doctor Who).
Cartoon Network airs the fourth episode of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
The 16th episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures airs CBBC, starring Elisabeth Sladen (Doctor Who).
MovieScore Media releases Jon Ehrlich & Jason Derlatka’s soundtrack from the ABC series Invasion.
Cartoon Network airs the fifth episode of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
The 17th episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures airs CBBC, starring Elisabeth Sladen (Doctor Who).
Sparking the biggest outcry since Tom Baker’s departure, actor David Tennant announces that the four special Doctor Who episodes in production for 2009 will be his last in the role, after which he’ll hand off the reins to a new actor. Likewise, Russell T. Davies has already announced that he will give up his position as Doctor Who showrunner to concentrate on non-genre projects, and will be succeeded by multiple-Hugo-winning writer Steven Moffat (who has penned such fan favorites as Blink and The Girl In The Fireplace). Naturally, speculation about the actor who will play the Doctor’s eleventh incarnation runs rampant.
Big Finish Productions releases the 114th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Peter Davison and Sarah Sutton.
The University of Nebraska Press publishes Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story, a comprehensive history of the American Skylab space station program written by David Hitt and Skylab astronauts Owen Garriott, Joe Kerwin, and Alan Bean. The book is part of University of Nebraska Press’ Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight series.
The 18th episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures airs CBBC, starring Elisabeth Sladen (Doctor Who).
Cartoon Network airs the sixth episode of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
The 19th episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures airs CBBC, starring Elisabeth Sladen (Doctor Who).
Cartoon Network airs the seventh episode of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off on a 15-day mission to the International Space Station, carrying more supplies and equipment than any previous shuttle flight bound for the station. Also on tap is a major spacewalk to repair part of the solar panel assembly on the station which allows it to track the sun. Aboard Endeavour for her 22nd flight are Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Eric Boe, and mission specialists Steve Bowen, Don Pettit, Shane Kimbrough, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper and Sandra Magnus. Magnus remains on the International Space Station, while ISS crewmember Greg Chamitoff returns from a six-month stint in space aboard the shuttle.
The 20th episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures airs CBBC, starring Elisabeth Sladen (Doctor Who).
Silva Screen Records releases a CD of Murray Gold’s soundtrack music from the fourth season of new Doctor Who. Also included is music from the 2007 Christmas special, Voyage Of The Damned.
Cartoon Network airs the eighth episode of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
The first episode of Adrian Hodges’ 21st century remake of Terry Nation’s post-apocalyptic series Survivors airs on BBC1, starring Julie Graham. Shaun Dingwall and Freema Agyeman (Doctor Who) guest star.