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9:00 pm
Nova
"Hubble's Amazing Rescue"
A shuttle crew heads to the Hubble Space Telescope in spring 2009 to perform the first-ever-in-space repairs of Hubble's defective instruments. The task requires ingenious engineering fixes and the most intensive spacewalk in NASA history. From training to launch, NOVA presents the inside story of the mission and the extraordinary challenges faced by the crew members.G
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10:00 pm
POV
"The City Dark"
Filmmaker Ian Cheney moves from rural Maine to New York City and discovers the bright lights wash out the stars in the night sky. He embarks on an odyssey to America's brightest and darkest corners. He talks with astronomers, cancer researchers and ecologists about what is lost in the glare of city lights, blending a humorous searching narrative with poetic footage of the night sky.G
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11:00 pm
Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers
"Mysteries of the Deep"
Pioneering submarine crews explore the ill-fated Confederate secret weapon, Hunley, which carried out the first successful submarine attack. Alda peeks into the deep-diving watercraft, Alvin, which found the Titanic and discovered life in the deep ocean.G
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