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ISS Gyro Fixed Via Spacewalk

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the better-late-than-never dept.

Teahouse writes "After a failed attempt last week, the ISS Astronauts finally got to fix the external gyroscope circut breaker in the station. Tests are being run today, but it looks like the ISS is back to having attitude stability with redundancy. This is particularly significant with the Shuttle being grounded for an extended period because the ISS would have had to use thruster fuel to keep the Station's solar panels pointed in the right direction without the gyroscopes, and no guarantee when more fuel would be arriving."

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  1. Attitude stability? by DrEldarion · · Score: 5, Funny

    but it looks like the ISS is back to having attitude stability

    Did they put it on Prozac?

    1. Re:Attitude stability? by jZnat · · Score: 3, Funny

      There are a lot better meds than Prozac. I personally enjoy the drug "alcohol", but that isn't recommended for people with severe asshat syndrome.

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    2. Re:Attitude stability? by DAldredge · · Score: 5, Funny

      Wosh = Sound of joke flying right over your head.

    3. Re:Attitude stability? by secolactico · · Score: 4, Funny

      I personally enjoy the drug "alcohol"

      Yup... that'sh gonna do wondersh for shtability...

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    4. Re:Attitude stability? by Maserati · · Score: 2, Funny

      Out in the cold is fine by me, that leaves the rest of us inside where it's warm. And with all the booze.

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  2. Dyslexic by Neo-Rio-101 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought for a moment that a gyro in IIS got fixed via a spacewalk. I never knew that there was a gyro in IIS requiring a spacewalk to fix, but it might explain the bugs.

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  3. Fixing a bad gyro... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Anybody can fix a bad gyro, so the question is: How does one fix a good gyro in orbit? There's no gravity! Extremes of temperature! I for one wouldn't want to eat an ISS gyro. Space tourism will never take off without good space resort chefs dammit!

    Now *THIS* is a gyro!

    (on second thought, this joke isn't very funny. posting anonymously anyway.)

    1. Re:Fixing a bad gyro... by bigattichouse · · Score: 3, Funny

      Falafel is much better in zero G

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  4. Nice, but.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The station's computer is still complaining of an ongoing fault in the AE-35 unit.

  5. Wouldn't it be easier... by Geak · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... to put a giant laser on the moon developed by Alan Parsons and call it the death star? Minime! Stop humping the laser!

    1. Re:Wouldn't it be easier... by grammar+nazi · · Score: 3, Funny
      This is significant with the Shuttle being grounded for an extended period because the ISS would have had to use thruster fuel to keep the Station's solar panels pointed in the right direction without the gyroscopes, and no guarantee when more fuel would be arriving.

      I'm not the type of person who usually points these types of things out, but after the first few sentences of atrocious grammar, the remainder of attrocious grammar is all packed into a run-on sentence, that, depending upon proper comma placement is incomplete.

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  6. Greek Astronauts? by The+Monster · · Score: 1, Funny

    And I thought for a moment that someone was fixing a Gyro for dinner.

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  7. "attitude stability with redundancy" by geek · · Score: 5, Funny

    "attitude stability with redundancy"

    Wish my ex-gf had that =/

  8. What Idiot... by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 3, Funny
    to fix the external gyroscope circut breaker

    And just what idiot made it an external circuit breaker?

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