for his mentorship and friendship to BV and GR. The authors would like to thank members of the Biological Testing Facility for technical support and the members of the Centre of Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine at the University of Technology, Sydney, for their resilience, support and their assistance in reading and editing this manuscript.

Conducted experiments: LK, AW, GR, GM, BL, PS, RZ, LM, BV. Analysed and interpreted data: LK, AW, GR, GM, BL, PS, RZ, LM, CV, BV. Drafted manuscript: LK, AW, GM, BV. All authors read and approved the final Manuscript.

This work was supported by Helen and David Baffsky, Julian Segal, David King and family, Tony and Vivian Howland-Rose, Doug Battersby and family, Iain Gray in honour of Kylie, Andrew Urquhart and family, Noel Passalaqua and family





Station crew 'shelters in place' for debris threat

BY WILLIAM HARWOOD

STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION

Posted: June 28, 2011;

Updated after the 'all clear'



KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL--The six-member crew of the International Space Station took shelter in two Russian Soyuz spacecraft early Tuesday because of a predicted close approach by an unknown piece of space debris. Radar tracking indicated the debris could pass within about 820 feet of the space station at 8:08 a.m. EDT (GMT-4), but no impact was detected and the crew was told to resume normal operations.

Credit: NASA



"We are currently at TCA plus four minutes and you are clear to egress Soyuz," Kjell Lindgren radioed the crew from mission control in Houston at 8:12 a.m., four minutes after the time of closest