What a Day...

For those of you keeping up the the mission, today was not a very good day for my group. Although you probably didn't hear anything until maybe an hour ago or so. Here is a quick recap of what happened today. My system uses the Russian computers that had some issues. Again, Christina puts a few words together of today's events. Yes, it seems that the most remote failures do happen. We tend to think that our Russian counterpart's computers are very robust and the fault protection built in them is adequate to maintain fault tolerance. I don't think we know what caused the issue yet, but rest assured, we will be ready for the next time it occurs...hence Christina's excitement about writing a procedure to handle what happened today. Yeah, she's excited.
Members of the ADCO team did work hard today to come up with a workaround to maybe help the situation. While their efforts proved that the concept could work, unfortunately physics was not on their side. Great effort though!!!
There was no danger to any crew members with our little issue (although the false fire is always a scary situation). Last i heard is that the Russians were able to recover some of their system...enough to get the ISS back into attitude control.

I am taking notes for my flight. I will try to take care of some of the issues that this flight is encountering...at least the ones within my power to control.
It's definitely been a little exciting around the office today...i hope the "excitement" calms down though...all in a day in the life of a flight controller. What an awesome job!!