ISS Solar Panels Up, Computer Glitch Puzzles Controllers

摘要

Russian and U.S. engineers were drawing up plans late June 15 to work around the failure of critical computers aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in time for the departure of the shuttle Atlantis. Mike Suffredini, NASA's ISS program manager said engineers were studying alternatives to help maintain control of the space station's orientation, including using rockets aboard docked Russian spacecraft, once Atlantis' STS-117 crew casts off from the orbital laboratory June 19.