Amid Tito Launch Date Debate Sun. Click to enlarge. Shuttle Endeavour is seen docked to station Alpha during the first spacewalk of STS-100 on April 22, 2001. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.
Engineers now think the third computer suffered a hard-drive failure.
U.S. Destiny science lab. Exactly what caused the other two computers to shut down remains a mystery. We re still working on analyzing all the data. NASA wants to have at least two of the computers on line before a shuttle robot arm operator tries to stow an Italian moving van in the shuttle s cargo bay. Tentatively scheduled for Friday afternoon, that operation calls for the 4.5-ton cargo carrier to be pluck from a port on the Unity module and then deposited in Endeavour s bay.