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...time period just before The X-Files, Fox has launched the eerie cyberthriller VR.5 (Fridays, 8 p.m. est). Last Wednesday the network introduced Sliders, about a charmingly disheveled physics student who creates a void in his basementthat transports him to different parallel universes every week. Elsewhere, Showtime has just launched a revival of the 1960s anthology series The Outer Limits (Sundays, 10 p.m. est), which will prey on fears of everything from alien organisms to virtual reality. These shows are joining a sizable armada of sci-fi programming already on the air, ranging from nbc's SeaQuest DSV and Earth...
Russia's celebrity cosmonaut, Valery Polyakov, came home this morning after a record 439 days in space, landing on a snowy steppe in Kazakhstan at 7 a.m. (11 p.m. EST Tuesday). Fit, trim and ready with high-fives for earth-bound colleagues, the 52-year-old physician exclaimed "It's Mother Earth" as he and two other cosmonauts emerged from their Soyuz descent capsule. Left behind: a new three-person crew on thespace station Mir, including U.S. astronaut Norman Thagard. (He aims to break the more modest American record of 84 straight days in space...
...cosmonauts on the space station Mir was greeted today with gifts of salt and bread, bear hugs and a kiss on the cheek. Astronaut Norman Thagard and his two Russian crewmates floated into the Mir 90 minutes after their capsule docked with the space station at 2:45 a.m. EST. The trio is slated to remain there for three months. NASA plans to send four more astronauts to the Mir beginning in June. TIME Moscow correspondent Terence Nelan says Russians at mission control in Kaliningrad (just outside the city) worked hard on a "flawless" docking, concerned any foul up could...
...past the space agency's sorters so far. "Why did they schedule the liftoff for 2 a.m.?" asked Thomas Maier, Jr. of Decatur, Ga. "I like to watch and it is past my bedtime. I am 9 years old you see." Crew member Tammy Jernigan, up at 5 a.m. EST, replied that astronomy studies indicated that an early liftoff would speed their search for intergalactic helium...
...combat missile touched off a brief international crisis today, as several European countries and the U.S. scrambled for explanations. The report by Interfax, a Russian news agency, cited an unidentified military source reporting that a missile launched from northern Europe was destroyed at 10:30 a.m. (2:30 a.m. EST). The killer missile turned out to be a NASA-funded research rocket, launched from Oslo, Norway, to study the Northern lights. "We are a little puzzled by the report," said Erik Lanke, spokesman for the Norwegian Supreme Defense Command in Oslo after the Interfax report. Spokesmen for NATO, several European...