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Space Station Suffers Power Glitch

Posted by Hemos on from the bad-times-in-space dept.

TheSexican writes "As if the MRO's vision problems weren't enough, it seems that NASA has another problem on their hands as of late. " The problem itself has been solved; one of the solar power array went off line, and had to be repaired, but is back up and working.

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  1. Re:What's that thing for? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 4, Funny

    They are trying to determine how people respond to someone toggling the light switch on-and-off in space. Hollywood wants the research to make scarier movies set in space.

  2. Don't touch that! by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's the History Eraser Button, you fool!!!

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  3. isolated? not likely. by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 4, Funny

    They are still investigating what caused the glitch, but they believe it was an isolated event.

    "I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Dave."

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  4. Good thing they managed to fix it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    .. or the aliens would have started hatching, and that would really have hurt the budgets

  5. Re:They went ahead and by Hijacked+Public · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think that an Office Space Milton joke would have been a better fit.

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