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Two Russian cosmonauts began to get crucial computers up and running Friday, four days after they crashed at the International Space Station and curbed the outpost’s ability to orient itself and produce oxygen. The progress came after days of frustrating effort.
Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov bypassed a power switch with a cable to get four out of six processors on two computers running. Had the machines continued to malfunction, the three-member space station crew could still have remained on board, but other steps would have been taken to maintain oxygen supplies.
The computer crash came as astronauts from shuttle Atlantis were resuming work on the long-running construction of the station.
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Items compiled from Tribune news services.
