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	Astronauts install space station observation deck www.space-travel.com Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Feb 12, 2010 – Two NASA astronauts completed the first spacewalk Friday of a mission to install a seven-windowed observation dome aboard the International Space Station.
	Russia launches US satellite: report www.spacedaily.com Moscow (AFP) Feb 12, 2010 – Russia launched a US telecommunications satellite from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur cosmodrome, RIA Novosti news agency said Friday quoting space officials.
	Russian satellite breaks up over perplexed Mexicans www.spacedaily.com Pachuca, Mexico (AFP) Feb 11, 2010 – A loud explosion and ball of fire that people in central Mexico reported seeing in the sky was actually a Russian satellite plunging back to earth, experts said Thursday.
	Astronauts Tackle Glitch With Space Station’s New Room www.space.com Astronauts have run into a glitch with the International Space Station’s brand-new room that may delay plans for opening its long-awaited observation deck.
	Orbiting Astronaut Tweets Photos of Space Shuttle www.technewsdaily.com An orbiting Japanese astronaut who has been taking pictures of Earth and posting them to Twitter has found a new object to focus his camera lens on: the space shuttle.
	British astronaut in space answers Twitter questions www.telegraph.co.uk A British astronaut working on the International Space Station has answered questions fielded via Twitter, while in space.
	Suspended animation coming to life: researcher news.yahoo.com A gas proven deadly in chemical weapons could one day be used to put people into life-saving suspended animation.
	Visiting Mars – on Earth – Mars Desert Research Station – MDRS echoesofapollo.com This story comes from contThis story comes from contributor Amnon Govrin of Superior, CO, USA. He recently visited the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) and meet its 89th crew – Brian, Carla, Darrel, Kiri, Luis and Mike.ributor Amnon Govrin of Superior, CO, USA. He recently visited the Mars Desert…
	Stellarium www.stellarium.org Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go. view screenshots
	Iran unveils new space rocket and satellite designs www.spaceflightnow.com Iran has revealed the development of a new Simorgh space booster and three new satellites, including an imaging spacecraft that may provide Iran with a rudimentary space reconnaissance capability.
	Spacewalking plumbers make Tranquility cooler www.spaceflightnow.com After successfully hooking up ammonia coolant lines to the new Tranquility module, astronauts Robert Behnken and Nicholas Patrick returned to the space station’s Quest airlock to check for contamination while flight controllers finished powering up the module’s electrical systems.
	Spirit rover buttons down for harsh winter on Mars www.spaceflightnow.com The Spirit rover will spend the upcoming Martian winter in an unfavorable orientation tilted away from the sun, limiting its power production and likely ensuring the robotic explorer will be out of contact with Earth for up to six months.

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Stressed genes bring on grey http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2… The research, published by a team of Japanese scientists in the journal Cell, shows that DNA damage to melanocyte stem cells in mice, the cells that produce hair’s colour pigment melanin, leads to hair changing colour.

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