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stmx3 wrote:
Rusty B wrote:
False move by astronaut put space station out of kilter

The resulting boost pushed the station 25 degrees away from its normal
orientation in space, and scarce rocket fuel had to be used to put it
back in the right position, he said, in a report carried by the
Ria-Novosti news agency.

1) So far, they don't say who pushed the buttons, but aren't the
Russians touchy about having anyone else operate their equipment but a
Russian?

Is this for real? I'd assumed that it was a joke (because any engineer
worth their salt would at least have had some kind of lockout/tagout
procedure to stop something like that ). No mentions of this anywhere else
that I can see ...

Nick