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. 
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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. (more…)
Epic Records releases a remastered and expanded edition of the Electric Light Orchestra album Balance Of Power. (more…)
ABC airs the 60th episode of the J.J. Abrams-produced series Lost. Mira Furlan (Babylon 5) and Nestor Carbonell guest star. (more…)
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. (more…)
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. (more…)
Big Finish Productions releases the 93rd Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Peter Davison and Sarah Sutton. (more…)
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. (more…)
Disco Mix Club Records releases a Back To Mine compilation album picked by Norwegian duo Röyksopp. (more…)
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. (more…)
ABC airs the 62nd episode of the J.J. Abrams-produced series Lost. Kim Dickens guest stars. (more…)
ABC airs the 63rd episode of the J.J. Abrams-produced series Lost. Andrew Divoff and Nestor Carbonell guest star. (more…)
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. (more…)
The 204th 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. (more…)
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 51st episode of Stargate Atlantis. Richard Dean Anderson, Robert Picardo, and Mitch Pileggi guest star. (more…)
The 729th episode of Doctor Who (the 31st since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Ardal O’Hanlon and Georgine Anderson (Century Falls) guest star. (more…)
BBC Home Video and 2|entertain release the 1989 Doctor Who story Survival on DVD. (This title will receive a later release date in North America.) (more…)
Japanese label Noise McCartney Records releases the album I’m OK, You’re OK by Jason Falkner, the ex-Jellyfish guitarist’s third solo album. (more…)
ABC airs the The 205th 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. (more…)
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 52nd episode of Stargate Atlantis. Mitch Pileggi (The X-Files) guest stars. (more…)
The 730th episode of Doctor Who (the 32nd since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Hugh Quarshie (Star Wars Episode I) and Andrew Garfield (The Amazing Spider-Man) guest star. This is the first part of a two-part story. (more…)
ABC airs the 65th episode of the J.J. Abrams-produced series Lost. Byron Chung and Andrew Divoff guest star. (more…)
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 53rd episode of Stargate Atlantis. Robert Davi guest stars. (more…)
The 731st episode of Doctor Who (the 33rd since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Hugh Quarshie (Star Wars Episode I) and Andrew Garfield (The Amazing Spider-Man) guest star. This is the second part of a two-part story. (more…)
Big Finish Productions releases the 94th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker. (more…)
The 206th 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. (more…)
ABC airs the 66th episode of the J.J. Abrams-produced series Lost. Mira Furlan (Babylon 5) and Nestor Carbonell guest star. (more…)
Astronaut Wally Schirra, one of the seven original Mercury astronauts, and the only astronaut to lift off aboard Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions, dies at the age of 84. Selected as one of the first “class” of American astronauts, Schirra was the fifth American to fly in space, making six orbits of the Earth in 1962. He commanded Gemini 6, and was the commander of Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, which tested the capabilities of the redesigned Apollo command/service module in Earth orbit. In 1969, he retired from NASA and immediately landed a new gig, sitting aside TV news legend Walter Cronkite for coverage of the missions to the moon, as well as continuing to offer insider commentary on space coverage at CBS through 1975. He was awarded numerous medals by both NASA and the United States Navy, among countless other honors.
The 207th 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. (more…)
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 54th episode of Stargate Atlantis. (more…)
The 732nd episode of Doctor Who (the 34th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Mark Gatiss (The League of Gentlemen) guest stars. (more…)
ABC airs the 67th episode of the J.J. Abrams-produced series Lost. Andrew Divoff and Nestor Carbonell guest star. (more…)