A satellite crashes down in Utah. With it comes a previously unknown virus which is dubbed “Andromeda” and, as the tagline for this updated version of Michael Crichton says: “It’s a bad day to be human”.

Here are a couple of first looks at official stills from the upcoming A&E mini-series “The Andromeda Strain”, based on the novel by Michael Crichton about a wayward Earth satellite that crashes back to Earth, unleashing a deadly virus on a small town. It’s then up to a small team of brilliant scientists to try to contain the outbreak, with the entire nation, and possibly the world, at stake. Better get it right, boys! Images from the two-night mini-series below.

That blasted Andromeda strain is back, and it’s deadlier than ever. Well, it’s probably just about as deadly as the one that showed up in the 1971 movie of the same name, but this just sounds a little better. The two-night mini-series will show up on the A&E, one of their first original mini-series, and is still based on the novel by Michael Crichton. This time around, Mikael Salomon directs from a script by Robert Schenkkan.

The Andromeda Strain (2008) TV Mini-Series Images Gallery