Nymz's Journal: Computer glitch sends international space station spinning

A glitch in a navigation computer, aboard the international space station, recently caused a number of problems that included a loss of gyroscope management. Gyroscope systems are used to keep the station properly orientated, and without them it began to spin out of control. Fortunately the space shuttle was there, and the crew used their thrusters to manually keep the station aligned until "flight controllers at the Johnson Space Center in Houston came up with an untried technique for switching orientation control back to the station's control moment gyroscopes without going through the Russian command-and-control computers." And I thought my job was stressful.