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Sunita Williams
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U.S. astronaut Sunita "Suni" Williams, a resident of the international space station since December, claimed the world record for the longest spaceflight by a woman early today, an honour the previous record holder was only too happy to relinquish.
Shortly before 1 a.m. CDT, Williams surpassed the previous record of 188 days, four hours, established by fellow NASA astronaut Shannon Lucid aboard Russia's former Mir space station in 1996.

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 dogging a mission to the International Space Station have been eased following a space walk and a computer reboot.
A third spacewalk by astronauts on the shuttle Atlantis has fixed a tear in its thermal blanket that occurred during lift off.
And Russian cosmonauts have now successfully rebooted vital ISS computer systems that had crashed.
The systems control the station's positioning and its oxygen supply.

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ISS Program Manager, Mike Suffredini. 15th June 2007.

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The failure of all six main control computers on the international space station's Russian segment has baffled space engineers in Houston and in Moscow. Temporary repairs arent enough. If the cause of the sudden simultaneous failures cannot be quickly identified and remedied, the space station's future operations are under threat.

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 How many people are still cranking along with a 12-year-old computer at work? If that's your situation, you might have a bit more sympathy for the astronauts trying to cope with the computer problems on the international space station. The system that controls the station's orientation as well as other key functions on the Russian side of the outpost basically uses 12-year-old chips that were designed using a 21-year-old architecture and sent into orbit seven years ago.

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RE: International Space Station
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US astronauts have ended their second spacewalk, folding up old solar panels on the International Space Station.
The two shuttle Atlantis astronauts folded a solar wing to allow a new system of panels to rotate properly.
They should complete the work in the next walk on Thursday and a fourth walk on Friday will see if repairs are needed to the thermal re-entry blanket.

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An unprecedented computer failure on the Russian side of the International Space Station might force NASA to keep shuttle Atlantis at the outpost an extra day if the problem cant be resolved quickly.
All three command and control computers and all three guidance and navigation computers in the module failed after American solar wings were added to the outpost earlier this week.

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Fire alarm on board ISS caused by computer error.
A fire alarm indicator activated last night in the Russian segment Zarya on board the ISS caused a false fire alarm.
According to an expert from NASA, it was an ordinary incident of computer failure on board the ISS. There had been similar incidents caused by the malfunctioning of the same types of detectors aboard the ISS  in the past as well.

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