Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gil Gerard played Buck Rogers in both the 1979 movie and the spin-off TV series. - Herb Ball/NBCUniversal/Getty Images Gil Gerard, ...

In the year 1987, NASA launched space probe Ranger III, with astronaut William "Buck" Rogers, on a 5-month trip around the solar system. However, the craft runs into a meteor storm, which disrupts its ...

1979TV Series"The original space man! The ultimate trip! Buck Rogers swings back to earth and lays it on the 25th Century!" ...

(CNN) — Gil Gerard, the actor best known for playing sci-fi hero Buck Rogers, has died. He was 82. His death in hospice on Tuesday was announced by his wife, Janet Gerard, on Facebook. She wrote: ...

Gil Gerard, the actor best known for playing sci-fi hero Buck Rogers, has died. He was 82. His death in hospice on Tuesday was announced by his wife, Janet Gerard, on Facebook. She wrote: "Early this ...

(CNN) — Gil Gerard, the actor best known for playing sci-fi hero Buck Rogers, has died. He was 82. His death in a hospice on Tuesday was announced by his wife, Janet Gerard, on Facebook. She wrote: ...

Gil Gerard, who played television’s hunky sci-fi hero William “Buck” Rogers soon after the Star Wars franchise took hold in the late 1970s, has died. He was 82. Gerard died Tuesday in hospice as a ...