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Virgin 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.

The CW airs the 41st episode of Superman & Lois, starring Tyler Hoechlin, Elizabeth Tulloch, Michael Bishop, and Alex Garfin.

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The CW airs the 42nd episode of Superman & Lois, starring Tyler Hoechlin, Elizabeth Tulloch, Michael Bishop, and Alex Garfin.

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Streaming 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.)

Disney Music releases John Williams’ soundtrack from the movie Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny. (more…)

Streaming 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. (more…)

India 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.

Ten Acre Films publishes Paul Hayes’ non-fiction book Pull To Open: 1962-1963 – The Inside Story of How the BBC Created and Launched Doctor Who. (more…)

Virgin 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.

Russia 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.

Warner 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. (more…)

Streaming 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. (more…)

Launched 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.

The 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). (more…)

American Laundromat Records releases the Juliana Hatfield single I’m Alive / When I Was A Boy, an pair of covers accompanying the album Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO. (more…)

Silva Screen Records releases the soundtrack from the 1975 Doctor Who story Revenge Of The Cybermen, composed by Carey Blyton. (more…)

Composer Dominic Glynn releases, via his No Bones Records label, Doctor Who: The Survival Remixes, an EP of remixes of Glynn’s score from the 1989 Doctor Who episode Survival. (more…)

Deutsche Grammophon releases the album Echoes: Ancient & Modern by famed producer Trevor Horn (Buggles, Art Of Noise, Yes), an all-star album of covers of mostly ’80s hits, with a few past connections to Horn’s career. (more…)