Faced with a dismal weather picture at Kennedy Space Center all week, NASA officials have decided to send Endeavour to the backup landing site at Edwards Air Force Base in California today. A few of the 2,300 students from 13 states who have used a huge remote-control radio telescope to measure energy from Jupiter's radiation belts during the past six months will present their results May 4 to scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Explore the Net Unlikely failures triggered computer shutdowns After five days of extensive trouble shooting, engineers now believe the culprit responsible for crippling the international space station's computer system was the unlikely, near-simultaneous failures of two critical hard drives. Flight controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory say the probe is doing fine, however. The spacecraft and its sensitive instruments have been protected from the unfriendly tropical conditions in a special, environmentally-sealed testing chamber.
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