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A member of the Expedition 35 crew is shown in this still image from NASA television venturing outside the International Space Station for a six-hour spacewalk

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Russian Cosmonauts Complete Spacewalk

02:00 20/04/2013

Two Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) have completed a spacewalk, Russia’s Mission Control Center reported on Saturday.

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02:00 20/04/2013
International Space Station
23:00 19/04/2013
The manned orbital multi-role research facility is a joint international project. Participating countries: Belgium, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Canada, The Netherlands, Norway, Russia, the United States, France, Switzerland, Sweden and Japan.
Russian Cosmonauts Begin Spacewalk
18:14 19/04/2013
Two Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) started a six-hour spacewalk on Friday to carry out a number of maintenance tasks, Russian Mission Control said.
Russia Launches ‘Orbital Noah’s Ark’ Eyeing Mars Missions
15:31 19/04/2013
Russia orbited the world's only returnable satellite dedicated to biological research in space on Friday, helping to pave the way for future interplanetary flights, Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said.
Kamchatka Bears Wake Up and Head to Geysers
15:25 19/04/2013
Brown bears in the Russian region of Kamchatka, considered to be some of the world’s largest, have started coming out of hibernation, a local nature reserve reported on Friday.
Skolkovo: Russian 'Silicon Valley'
13:29 19/04/2013
A high-tech research and production hub, similar to the Silicon Valley in California, will be built in Skolkovo near Moscow.
NASA’s Kepler Telescope Discovers Most Earthlike Planets Yet
01:32 19/04/2013
NASA’s Kepler planet-hunting space telescope has discovered seven new planets, including two that are orbiting in the zone “between fire and ice” that could sustain life, researchers working on the project said Thursday.
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23:59 16/04/2013
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Kurchatov Institute Gets $230 Mln From Federal Budget
22:28 16/04/2013
The Russian government has allocated 7 billion rubles (around $230 million) from the federal budget for development programs at the Kurchatov Institute, renowned for its achievements in nuclear science, Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets said on Tuesday.1
Russian Meteorite Pieces on Display in Chicago
20:53 16/04/2013
Two months after a meteorite exploded over the Chelyabinsk region of Russia and slammed into the Ural mountain range, a collection of meteorite pieces gathered in the aftermath is on display at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
Russia Launches Canadian Telecoms Satellite
23:39 15/04/2013
Russia’s Proton-M carrier rocket carrying a Canadian telecommunications satellite Anik-G1 blasted off on Monday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos reported.
Russian Space Freighter Undocks from Orbital Station
23:10 15/04/2013
A Russian cargo spacecraft undocked on Monday from the International Space Station (ISS) to perform a series of scientific experiments in space before splashing in the Pacific on April 21, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said.
Engineers Invent ‘Nanosponge’ Removing Toxins from Blood
06:48 15/04/2013
Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have created a “nanosponge” that can remove dangerous toxins, including those produced by drug resistant staphylococcus, E. coli, venomous snakes and bees, from the bloodstream, the US news website Science Daily reported Sunday.
NASA Images May Show 1970s Soviet Mars Lander
23:13 12/04/2013
A group of Russian space followers think they have spotted the remnants of a Soviet spacecraft that made the first successful soft landing on Mars more than 40 years ago in an image from 2007 taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Russia to Explore Moon, Mars by 2030 - Deputy PM
13:33 12/04/2013
Russia will develop new technology including huge new rockets for manned flights to the Moon and Mars by 2030, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday.
NASA Plans for Asteroids, Astronauts and a Trip to Mars
01:54 12/04/2013
Planned space adventures over the next few decades for the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) read like a science fiction thriller with a touch of the wild west thrown in, with plans to journey farther and faster than anyone from Earth has gone before.
Russia’s ISS Crew Devotes Record Time to Science
19:11 11/04/2013
Cosmonauts who completed their mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in mid-March devoted a record 33 percent of their work time to conducting scientific experiments, a space official said on Thursday.
Chile-Based Telescope Captures Star’s Death
21:33 10/04/2013
Scientists at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have released what they call an “unusually good picture” of a star 3,300 light years from Earth taken by the ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, that is putting on a show of color and light as it dies.
‘Secretbook’ – New Tool Encodes Hidden Messages in Facebook Photos
21:03 10/04/2013
Maybe Facebook doesn’t know everything. A new tool lets anyone using Google’s Chrome internet browser embed secret messages in photos uploaded to the sprawling social network, keeping them out of reach of outsiders, including governments and Facebook itself.

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