http://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-station-idUSKBN18H0XQ
A pair of astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station as early as Tuesday for an emergency space walk to replace a failed computer, one of two that control major U.S. systems aboard the orbiting outpost, NASA said on Sunday.
The primary device failed on Saturday, leaving the $100 billion orbiting laboratory to depend on a backup system to route commands to its solar power system, radiators, cooling loops and other equipment.
The station's current five-member crew from the United States, Russia and France were never in any danger, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said in a statement.
NASA expects to make a decision later on Sunday about which astronauts aboard the station will make the two-hour space walk and when the assignment will take place.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday May 22 2017, @12:46PM
Like a car, all the computers are critical and there's about 100 of them.
It is an interesting reliability assessment mistake. Of course a 1 in a million incident does happen 1 in a million times, there's only a process problem if weird incidents happen all the time...