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International Space Station Gyroscope Fails

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the tipsy-heavenly-bodies dept.

b00m3rang writes "Reuters reports that one of the three working gyroscopes that keep the international space station stable and in the right position stopped working, just hours after a new two-man crew moved in for a half-year stay."

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  1. Huston we have a problem! by dawg+ball · · Score: 5, Funny

    Which way is up?

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  2. Is it just me? by Zakabog · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or is this picture a little creepy? The american astronaut looks like a serial killer or something and the russian looks like he's afraid because the american looks like a killer...

    1. Re:Is it just me? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      That photo is faked. The astronauts are most certainly not floating in space with the ISS behind them. I expect better from NASA.

  3. Re:I shouldn't laugh... by Jonas+the+Bold · · Score: 5, Funny
    I wonder why they would place the circuit breakers outside the space station. If those ciruit breakers are like anything in my house, they go out all the time.

    I think it's a pretty good bet the circuit breakers on the International Space Station are absolutely nothing like the ones in your house.

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  4. Re:I shouldn't laugh... by meringuoid · · Score: 4, Funny
    I wonder why they would place the circuit breakers outside the space station.

    Why, for dramatic tension when somebody has to go EVA to replace the AE-35 unit, of course.

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  5. That's not a bug, that's a feature! by weiyuent · · Score: 4, Funny

    NASA has finally decided it's time the ISS had centrifugal artificial gravity.

  6. I just have to do it.... by arduous · · Score: 5, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, spacestation rotates you!!

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  7. Cheesy plot device? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the article:

    "At this time, the box that holds that particular circuit breaker ... is outside (the station) and that implies we'll have to do an EVA," Suffredini said in a telephone news conference, using the acronym for extra-vehicular activity, or spacewalk."

    Right...The controls for the fence are in the shack across the lot, past all the dinosaurs; the satellite uplink is in the shack across the lot, past all the marauding aliens; the circuit breaker is in the box, outside the space station. Go fix it Dave.

    Any of the astronauts wearing a red shirt by the way?

  8. Re:Sensationalism... by FireFury03 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "At this time, the box that holds that particular circuit breaker ... is outside (the station) and that implies we'll have to do an EVA,"

    So which monkey put the fuse box on the outside of a space station? :)

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