Tags: international space station ISS NASA Science news space news ABP Live Science NASA ISS Johnson Space Center NASA Houston ISS Astronauts Follow Science News on abp LIVE for more latest stories and trending topics.Further Reading The Greatest Leap, part 1: How the Apollo fire propelled NASA to the MoonFor the past two years, historians and engineers from the Kansas Cosmosphere's Spaceworks team have been lovingly restoring and detailing the 1,200-pound (544kg) historic sage green Ford-Philco consoles that populated the control room-repairing damage from decades of casual neglect and also adding in the correct control panels so that each console now correctly mirrors how it would have been configured for an Apollo flight.Īrs was invited to view the restored MOCR 2 last week as the final finishing restoration touches were still being applied. Meanwhile, despite Moscow saying that it will no longer send cosmonauts to the ISS after 2024, and instead, build its own station, NASA and Roscosmos have not stopped working together.Ī micrometeoroid caused a Soyuz spacecraft connected to the ISS to become damaged in January, as a result of which Moscow launched a rescue vessel to the space station to bring three crew members back to Earth. He stated that mission control hopes to better understand what happened, take the lessons learned, and move forward. However, on July 25, the flight controllers remained at JSC because the lights and air-conditioning were still working.Īccording to a report by The Guardian, Montalbano said the JSC has a backup command and control system that mission control could use if they need to close the centre for weather emergencies, especially important during the hurricane season. When a hurricane or other disaster that demands evacuations occurs, NASA uses a backup control centre several kilometres away from Houston. Montalbano said this was the first time NASA used backup control systems, and also stated that the space agency hoped to resolve the issue and resume normal operations by the end of the day, according to an AP report. Within 20 minutes of the outage, mission control informed the ISS crew of the outage using Russian communication systems. Joel Montalbano, ISS Program Manager, said the backup control systems restored communication within 90 minutes, and neither the ISS crew members nor the space station were in danger.
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Upgrade work was being conducted at JSC, when the power outage occurred. There are currently seven humans in the orbital laboratory, and due to the communication disruption, mission control was unable to send commands to the station and speak to the crew members. As a result, JSC, which leads ISS operations, had to use backup control systems for the first time, The Associated Press (AP) reported. The Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, NASA's centre for human spaceflight, suffered a power outage on July 25, 2023, causing communication between the International Space Station (ISS) and mission control to be disrupted.
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