WASHINGTON, Jul 25 Power problems at Mission Control in Houston on Tuesday, which led to the loss of communication with the International Space Station, did not pose a danger to the crew, said at a briefing by ISS Program Manager at NASA Joel Montalbano.
«This morning <…> we experienced a problem with power supply to the Houston MCC and we lost the ability to exercise command, including voice communication and receiving telemetry data, the problem was not on the station, it happened entirely on Earth,» a NASA spokesman said. According to him, within 20 minutes after discovering the problem, NASA managed to contact the crew through Russian systems and explain to them what was happening. «Neither the station nor the crew were endangered,» Montalbano assured.
According to him, within 90 minutes, the MCC was transferred to backup systems and is now in communication with the station. «Over the course of the day today we will be looking into what happened and hopefully we will be up and running by the end of the day,» a NASA spokesman said, thanking all of NASA's ISS partners.
