The Wonders Of The Universe: Music From The Big Finish Space: 1999 Audio Dramas (soundtrack)

The Wonders Of The UniverseDragon’s Domain Records releases the soundtrack album The Wonders Of The Universe: Music From The Big Finish Space: 1999 Audio Dramas, collecting composer Joe Kraemer’s music created for the Big Finish Productions audio drama reboot of Space: 1999, as both a download and a CD. Read more

Virgin Galactic Unity-25

Unity-25Virgin Galactic launches the Unity-25 suborbital spaceflight aboard the SpaceShipTwo-class VSS Unity. Both crew and passengers are employees of Virgin Galactic, as this is effectively a proving flight following the Federal Aviation Administration’s grounding of the Virgin Galactic fleet in 2021 after its first passenger flight. Pilots Michael Masucci and C.J. Sturckow are at the controls; Beth Moses, Luke Mays, Jamila Gilbert, and Christopher Huie are the passengers. Flights following this one will be designated “Galactic” followed by the flight number.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The Broken Circle

Star Trek: Strange New WorldsStreaming service Paramount Plus releases the 11th episode of the Star Trek prequel series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, created by Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman, and Jenny Lumet. Carol Kane (Taxi) joins the cast in the second season premiere. Read more

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Ad Astra Per Aspera

Star Trek: Strange New WorldsStreaming service Paramount Plus releases the 12th episode of the Star Trek prequel series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, created by Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman, and Jenny Lumet. Yetide Badaki (American Gods) and Melanie Scrofano (Wynonna Earp) guest star. Read more

Star Trek: Prodigy cancelled

Star Trek: ProdigyStreaming service Paramount Plus abruptly announces that the animated series Star Trek: Prodigy, created by Dan & Kevin Hageman, will be leaving the service a week after the announcement, at the end of June. The second season, deep into the post-production process, will be completed, and an attempt will be made to sell both the first and second seasons to another distribution outlet (though, as with recent cancellations on other streaming services, there is also a possibility of the show being shelved entirely as a tax write-down). After the announcement that Star Trek: Discovery’s upcoming fifth season will be its last, Prodigy is the second Star Trek series to be cancelled in 2023. (It is one of several shows to leave Paramount Plus on extremely short notice at the end of June.)

Superman & Lois: What Kills You Only Makes You Stronger

Superman & LoisThe CW airs the 43rd episode of Superman & Lois, starring Tyler Hoechlin, Elizabeth Tulloch, Michael Bishop, and Alex Garfin. This is the third season finale; the CW announces that a shortened fourth season will be made, but will be the show’s last.

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Galactic 01

Galactic 01Virgin Galactic launches the Galactic 01 suborbital spaceflight aboard the SpaceShipTwo-class VSS Unity. The flight is piloted by Michael Masucci and Nicola Pecile, with Italians Walter Villadei, Pantaleone Carlucci, and Angelo Landolfi, and British citizen Colin Bennett, as the passengers. Some research objectives are carried out on this flight, which was delayed from a 2021 launch date.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Tomorrow And Tomorrow And Tomorrow

Star Trek: Strange New WorldsStreaming service Paramount Plus releases the 13th episode of the Star Trek prequel series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, created by Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman, and Jenny Lumet. Paul Wesley (The Vampire Diaries) guest stars. Read more

Chandrayaan-3

Chandrayaan-3India launches the Chandrayaan-3 uncrewed lunar lander mission, expected to reach the moon in August after weeks of gradually increasing the vehicle’s orbital altitude until it slips from Earth orbit into lunar orbit. The mission profile is very similar to that of the Chandrayaan-2 mission, which attempted to put a lunar lander named Vikram on the surface near the lunar south pole to look for signs of water.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Those Old Scientists

Star Trek: Strange New WorldsStreaming service Paramount Plus releases the 17th episode of the Star Trek prequel series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, created by Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman, and Jenny Lumet. Tawny Newsome (Star Trek: Lower Decks, Space Force) and Jack Quaid (Star Trek: Lower Decks, The Boys) guest star. Read more

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Subspace Rhapsody

Star Trek: Strange New WorldsStreaming service Paramount Plus releases the 19th episode of the Star Trek prequel series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, created by Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman, and Jenny Lumet. This is the first musical episode in the history of the franchise. Read more

Galactic 02

Galactic 02Virgin Galactic launches the Galactic 02 suborbital spaceflight aboard the SpaceShipTwo-class VSS Unity. The flight is piloted by CJ Sturckow and Kelly Latimer, with Birgin Galactic’s Beth Moses aboard as the astronaut instructor. The passengers are space tourists Jon Goodwin, Keisha Schahaff, and Anastatia Mayers. Goodwin is the first space traveler to fly after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Hegemony

Star Trek: Strange New WorldsStreaming service Paramount Plus releases the 20th episode of the Star Trek prequel series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, created by Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman, and Jenny Lumet. Melanie Scrofano (Wynonna Earp) guest stars in the second season finale, whose resolution will not stream until 2025. Read more

Luna 25

Luna 25Russia launches the Luna 25 uncrewed spacecraft on a mission to land near the south pole of the moon. This is the first mission in the Luna program, which has been dormant since the 1970s; if successful, the mission will be the first Russian soft-landing on the moon in almost 50 years. Much like India’s Chanrayaan-3 mission, launched a few weeks earlier, Luna 25 is intended to search for signs of water in the shaded areas of the lunar south pole, which could be a necessary resource for future crewed missions and possible long-term habitation of the moon.

Babylon 5: The Road Home

Babylon 5Warner Bros. releases the animated movie Babylon 5: The Road Home. direct to DVD, Blu-Ray, and digital. Written by series creator J. Michael Straczynski, and featuring surviving original series stars Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Peter Jurasik, Bill Mumy, Tracy Scoggins, and Patricia Tallman, with new actors voicing other familiar characters from the series. Read more

Babylon 5: The Road Home (Blu-Ray)

Babylon 5Warner Bros. releases the animated movie Babylon 5: The Road Home direct to DVD, Blu-Ray, and digital, offering the first new story set in the Babylon 5 universe in over 15 years, voiced by surviving members of the original live-action cast and new voice actors standing in for members of the cast who have died since its 1998 finale. Read more

Luna 25 mission ends

Luna 25Russia’s Luna 25 mission to the lunar south pole ends unsuccessfully when an engine burn intended to lower the vehicle’s orbit around the moon into its final landing orbit goes awry. Luna 25 instead crashes into the moon as the result of the engine firing longer than expected. Contact with Luna 25 is not recovered following what the Russian space agency describes as an “abnormal situation”. The mission was Russia’s first attempt at a lunar landing in nearly 50 years.

Star Wars: Ahsoka: Master And Apprentice

AhsokaStreaming service Disney+ releases the the first episode of Dave Filoni’s Star Wars: Ahsoka, starring Rosario Dawson and Natasha Liu Bordizzo. Following up on the events of Filoni’s previous aniamted series, Star Wars: Rebels, the first episode also features Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World), David Tennant (Doctor Who), Clancy Brown (Earth 2, Highlander), and the late Ray Stevenson. Read more

Chandrayaan-3 lands on the moon

Chandrayaan-3Launched by ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) in July, the Chandrayaan-3 uncrewed lunar lander successfully touches down on the surface of the moon near the lunar south pole, the first human-made spacecraft to successfully land in that region. Pictures from the surface are transmitted back to Earth, though the lander’s mission is to look for signs of subsurface water believed to be common in the shaded south pole region, a potentially vital resource for long-term human habitation of the moon. (This was the mission intended for the earlier, unsuccessful Chandrayaan-2 mission in 2018.) In accomplishing this feat, India becomes the fourth country to soft-land a payload on the lunar surface.

Star Trek: Lower Decks: For I Have No Bones And I Must Flee

Star Trek: Lower DecksStreaming service Paramount Plus releases the 32nd 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). Paul F. Tompkins and Paul Scheer guest star. Read more

Babylon 5: The Road Home (soundtrack)

Babylon 5The soundtrack from the direct-to-video animated movie Babylon 5: The Road Home is given a digital release by Watertower Music, featuring the complete score by frequent WB Animation composers Kristopher Carter, Michael McCuistion and Lolita Ritmanis (Batman: The Animated Series). Read more