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Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 12th episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks, created by Mike McMahan (Rick & Morty) and starring Tawny Newsome (Space Force), Jack Quaid (The Boys), Noel Wells (Craig Of The Creek), Eugene Cordero (Other Space), Dawnn Lewis (A Different World, Futurama), and Jerry O’Connell (Sliders). Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Vanessa Marshall (Star Wars: Rebels), and Paul F. Tompkins guest star. 
The CW airs the 95th episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Caity Lotz, Matt Ryan, Jes Macallan, and Tala Ashe.
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theLogBook.com releases the 29th episode of the Retrogram podcast, hosted by Earl Green, serving as a minimum-spoiler introduction and companion to the classic BBC science fiction series Blake’s 7.
Disney+ streams the second episode of the Marvel animated series What If…?, featuring the voices of Jeffrey Wright (Westworld), Samuel L. Jackson (Captain Marvel), and Michael Douglas (Ant-Man).
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Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 13th episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks, created by Mike McMahan (Rick & Morty) and starring Tawny Newsome (Space Force), Jack Quaid (The Boys), Noel Wells (Craig Of The Creek), Eugene Cordero (Other Space), Dawnn Lewis (A Different World, Futurama), and Jerry O’Connell (Sliders). Robert Duncan McNeill (Star Trek: Voyager) guest stars.
The CW airs the 96th episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Caity Lotz, Matt Ryan, Jes Macallan, and Tala Ashe. Steve Bacic (Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda) guest stars.
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Disney+ streams the fourth episode of the Marvel animated series What If…?, featuring the voices of Jeffrey Wright (Westworld), Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange), and Rachel McAdams (Doctor Strange).
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The Federal Aviation Administration grounds the Virgin Galactic fleet following irregularities in the recent VSS Unity flight carrying Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson into suborbital space. The FAA notes that deviations from the filed flight plan occurred during that flight, briefly taking the spacecraft into civilian commercial airspace during its ascent. An agreement will eventually be reached to expand the airspace surrounding Virgin Galactic’s New Mexico Spaceport America facility for future flights; commercial flights will not resume until 2023, allowing for upgrades to the vehicles.
Actor Tony Selby, known to British sci-fi and fantasy fans both as recurring rogue Sabalon Glitz in Doctor Who and as series regular Sam Maxsted in the first two (now missing) seasons of Ace Of Wands, dies of COVID-19-related complications at the age of 83. With his first credited TV role at the age of 13, Mr. Selby was a frequent fixture in British TV and films. He made numerous appearances in The Wednesday Play, and appeared in The Avengers, Department S, Callan, Special Branch, and Crown Court. He also made movie appearances, in such films as Villain, Adolf Hitler – My Part In His Downfall, and uncredited roles in Alfie and Superman. His 21st century TV appearances included Dream Team, New Tricks, and Doctors.
The CW airs the 97th episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Caity Lotz, Matt Ryan, Jes Macallan, and Tala Ashe. This is the sixth season finale.
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The University Of Florida Press publishes the non-fiction book Picturing The Space Shuttle: The Early Years by John Bisney and J.L. Pickering, a photographic history of the development and earliest launches of NASA’s Space Shuttle program.
Disney+ streams the fifth episode of the Marvel animated series What If…?, featuring the voices of Jeffrey Wright (Westworld), Mark Ruffalo (The Avengers), Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther, and Paul Bettany (Wandavision).
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Disney+ streams the sixth episode of the Marvel animated series What If…?, featuring the voices of Jeffrey Wright (Westworld), Michael B. Jordan (Black Panther), Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther, and Paul Bettany (Wandavision).
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Disney+ streams the seventh episode of the Marvel animated series What If…?, featuring the voices of Jeffrey Wright (Westworld), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Tom Hiddleston (Thor, Loki), and Natalie Portman (Thor, Star Wars Episode III).
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Disney+ streams the eighth episode of the Marvel animated series What If…?, featuring the voices of Jeffrey Wright (Westworld), JEremy Renner (Hawkeye), and Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange).
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Soyuz MS-19 is launched to the International Space Station from Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying a three-person crew (the first all-Russian Soyuz crew since Soyuz TM-30 in 2000) to a brief stay aboard the International Space Station. Cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, a veteran of three previous flights, commands and pilots the mission, whose other crewmembers, film director Klim Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild, are passengers visiting the station to shoot approximately 40 minutes of footage for a movie to be released at a later date. The revival of “space tourism” aboard the ISS sparks new controversy about the topic, particularly within the Russian space program, mirroring similar controversy surrounding the burgeoning suborbital passenger spaceflight industry. Shipenko and Peresild return to Earth after 12 days aboard the ISS, catching a ride home aboard Soyuz MS-18 alongside returning ISS Commander Oleg Novitskiy; Shkaplerov remains aboard the ISS to assume command. Soyuz MS-19 will return the current ISS crew to Earth in March 2022.
Disney+ streams the ninth episode of the Marvel animated series What If…?, featuring the voices of Jeffrey Wright (Westworld), Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther), and Hayley Atwell (Captain Carter). This is the first season finale, and Boseman’s final acting performance prior to his death in 2020.
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The second crewed flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital space capsule lifts off on a ten-minute parabolic trajectory. Of major interest to the press is the presence of Star Trek actor William Shatner aboard the flight, riding in a seat donated by Blue Origin. At 90 years old, Shatner replaces previous New Shepard passenger Wally Funk as the oldest human being in space, and returns from his trip visibly moved by the experience. Along with Shatner for the ride are Audrey Powers, Blue Origin’s VP of mission and flight operations, former NASA engineer Chris Boshuizen, and Dassault Systèmes executive Glen de Vries. (The latter two each paid $250,000,000 for their seats.)
The CW airs the 39th episode of Batwoman starring Javicia Leslie, Rachel Skarsten, and Meagan Tandy. This is the premiere of the series’ third and final season.
The CW airs the 98th episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Caity Lotz, Jes Macallan, Tala Ashe, and Olivia Swann. This is the premiere of the show’s seventh and final season.
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NASA and ESA announce that spectrographic analysis of Hubble Space Telescope data gathered during observations of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa reveals that Europa has a persistent atmosphere of water vapor, but only on the hemisphere of the moon that is opposite of the direction of its orbital motion. (This unusual effect had been predicted in computer modeling, but had not been directly observed until now.) The atmosphere is present in Hubble spectroscopy data as old as 1999 and as recent as 2015. The stability of the water vapor in the atmosphere is the real surprise find, since surface-based water was assumed to be in solid ice form.
Actress Joanna Cameron, perhaps best known for starring in the cult classic 1970s live-action kids’ superhero series Isis (a.k.a. The Secret of Isis), dies at the age of 70s after suffering complications from a stroke. Launching her career in 1969 at the behest of family friend Bob Hope, Cameron at one point held the Guinness World Record for the most commercial appearances for a single actor. Following her two-season stint as Isis, she moved on to TV guest roles in The Amazing Spider-Man, McMillan & Wife, and Switch, with her last TV credit in the appropriately titled 1980 made-for-TV movie Swan Song. After leaving Hollywood, she produced and directed promotional films for the U.S. Navy, and then moved into careers in health care and hotel marketing.
NASA launches the Lucy spacecraft on its twelve-year mission to study select specimens of the Trojan asteroid swarms that both precede and trail the planet Jupiter at the stable LaGrange points in its orbit. Lucy’s complex trajectory calls for it to conduct gravity assist flybys of Earth in 2022 and 2024, and to survey the main asteroid belt body 52246 Donaldjohanson in 2025, en route to reaching its first Trojan asteroid, 3548 Eurybates, in 2027. Future targets include 15094 Polymele later in 2027, 11351 Leucus and 21900 Orus in 2028, and – after a further gravity assist flyby of Earth in 2030 – the binary Trojan pair 617 Patroclus-Menoetius in 2033. Lucy’s name is not an abbreviation; it is named after a famous fossil skeleton discovered in 1971 by a team led by anthropologist David Johanson; it is hoped that studying the Trojan asteroids will lead to discoveries that make them similar “missing links” in the solar system’s own fossil record.
The CW airs the 40th episode of Batwoman starring Javicia Leslie, Rachel Skarsten, and Meagan Tandy.
The CW airs the 99th episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Caity Lotz, Jes Macallan, Tala Ashe, and Olivia Swann.
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The CW airs the 41st episode of Batwoman starring Javicia Leslie, Rachel Skarsten, and Meagan Tandy.
The CW airs the 100th episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Caity Lotz, Jes Macallan, Tala Ashe, and Olivia Swann. Past cast members Arthur Darvill, Brandon Routh, and Victor Garber guest star.
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Streaming service Paramount Plus premieres the two-part pilot episode of the animated series Star Trek: Prodigy, created by Dan & Kevin Hageman. The first Star Trek series in over 40 years designed for a younger audience, the series features the voices of Brett Gray, Ella Purnell, Jason Mantzoukas, Angus Imrie, Rylee Alazraqui, and Dee Bradley Baker, with Kate Mulgrew reprising the role of Captain Janeway.
The 865th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 166th episode since the series’ revival), starring Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill, and John Bishop. This is the first episode of a six-episode, season-long storyline titled Flux; this season has been long-delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Ten Acre Films publishes the non-fiction book The Long Game: 1996-2003 – The Inside Story of How the BBC Brought Back Doctor Who by Paul Hayes. The book covers the BBC’s numerous attempts to revive Doctor Who between the one-off 1996 TV movie and the series’ return in 2005.