The International Space Station

The International Space Station was unable to carry out a space debris avoidance maneuver last week, when the Russian computer on board the station's FGB module disallowed a command, because it had not been updated with software to account for the presence of the 25,000-lb. U.S. Node 1 Unity module...

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