Posted
6/23/2007 10:51:00 AM
by Douglas
Welcome home. To California, anyway.
Work was continuing on the station computers, but Gerstenmaier said the computer crash may have taught NASA much about how electronics will perform on the space station-size ships the agency hopes to one day send to Mars.
"This mission is really a piece of exploration, if you think about it," he said. "We may have learned something here on this flight with the computer malfunction that could pay huge benefits to us in the future."
We can all hope.
Labels: STS-117