http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19242063/

" ... where we would have to de-man the space station. " ?

"This type of massive computer failure had never been seen before on
the space station ..."

A glimmer of hope, (Ps 107:26), in the midst of overwhelming disaster ...
 

Ge 11:4  And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower,
whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be
scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

Ps 107:26  They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the
depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.

Isa 14:12-15  How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the
morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the
nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon
the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will
ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

Jer 49:16  Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine
heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest
the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as
the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the

Jer 51:53  Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she
should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers
come unto her, saith the LORD.
 
 

HOUSTON - Russian space officials said Friday they were considering
moving up the launch of a Russian cargo ship as cosmonauts aboard the
international space station struggled for a second day to reboot
failed computers controlling the orbiting outpost's orientation.

The problem started with a spike in static electricity while cables
were being hooked up to the station's solar panels, said Nikolai
Sevastyanov, head of the Russian state-controlled rocket builder RKK
Energiya.

He said Russian officials were considering moving up the launch of a
Progress cargo ship by two weeks to July 23 to bring up some new
parts.

...
 

This type of massive computer failure had never been seen before on
the space station, although individual computers do fail periodically.
NASA has said that in a worst-case scenario, the space station's three
crew members might have to return to Earth early if the computers
can't be fixed.

Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for space
operations, called the chances of abandoning the space station because
of the computer problem "remote."

"We're still a long way from where we would have to de-man the space
station," Gerstenmaier said. ...