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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 DAldredge · · Score: 5, Funny

      Wosh = Sound of joke flying right over your head.

    2. 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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  2. 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.)

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

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

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

    "attitude stability with redundancy"

    Wish my ex-gf had that =/