No Rush to Fix Space Station Circuit Breaker
From Times Wire Reports
Astronauts will have to replace a failed circuit breaker outside the International Space Station, but the work can be put off for a few months because the orbiting complex is holding steady, a NASA official said.
A circuit breaker popped open Wednesday and cut off power to one of the gyroscopes needed to keep the space station stable and pointed in the right direction. In Cape Canaveral, program manager Bill Gerstenmaier said the culprit appeared to be a bad transistor, the result of a design flaw.
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