Computers on Space Station Crash; NASA Weighs Options if Repair Fails
292789
Russian and NASA engineers worked into the evening yesterday to figure out why two computer systems essential to the operation of the international space station crashed, and the agency began making contingency plans that include potentially abandoning the $100 billion facility if they should fail.
475090
Russian cosmonauts and engineers may have corrected a problem that caused computers aboard the International Space Station to crash.
575344
By Janese Heavin, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Feb. 7--A system failure caused some glitches on the station, and the shuttle traveled a little too far into space, directors say, but for the most part the Columbia Aeronautic and Space Association mission is going well.
32417
Astronauts on Friday fixed a tear in the shuttle Atlantis&#39;s heat shield and repaired two main computers at the International Space Station after an unprecedented systems breakdown that lasted 48 hours, a NASA spokeswoman said.
438202
KOROLYOV, Moscow region. June 16 (Interfax-AVN) - Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov managed to repair four out of the six computers in the Russian segment of the International Space Station early on Saturday, the Russian space mission control told Interfax.
2668
NASA announces that the main oxygen generator for the international space station has failed, and the two astronauts on board may have to tap into an attached cargo ship&#39;s air supply next week.
750813
By MIKE SCHNEIDER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  HOUSTON  Two Russian cosmonauts began to get crucial computers up and running Friday, four days after they crashed at the international space station and curbed the outpost's ability to orient itself and produce oxygen.
90248
By MIKE SCHNEIDER  HOUSTON - Six processors on two computers began crashing on the Russian side of the international space station Tuesday, limiting the spacecraft's ability to maneuver and produce oxygen. By Friday evening, four of the six processors were up and running again.
538591
Russian computers that control the international space station's orientation and oxygen and water supplies were partly working again Thursday after failing the day before.
225498
The main oxygen generator for the international space station has failed, and the two astronauts on board may have to tap into an attached cargo ship&#39;s air supply next week, NASA said Thursday.
714677
MOSCOW. June 15 (Interfax-AVN) - Rocket and space concern Energia has set up a commission to identify the causes of onboard computer failures in the Russian sector of the International Space Station (ISS), Energia press secretary Irina Gomenyuk said.
408723
Russian engineers sought to fix  malfunctioning navigational computers on the orbiting  International Space Station on Friday, hoping to ward off a  possible evacuation of its three crew.
147301
Space Station computers partly restored    WASHINGTON, June 14 (Xinhua) -- The International Space Station partly restored from the computers breakdown on Thursday, according to NASA mission control center.
698587
Problems with switches aboard NASA (news - web sites)&#39;s Genesis solar probe may have kept its parachute from opening, which led to the craft&#39;s crash-landing in the Utah desert, the US space agency said.
319749
NASA said on Thursday that a new power feed could be the source of potentially catastrophic computer glitches aboard the $100 billion International Space Station but it hoped the problem would be resolved.
363828
1st LD: International space station's faulty computers all back online    WASHINGTON, June 16 (Xinhua) -- The six faulty computers at the International Space Station's (ISS) Russian segment has been all restored on Saturday, according to a top NASA official.
473386
Two Russian computers on board the International Space Station are still not working properly, and officials are still trying to to figure out what's wrong and how to fix the  problem.