The crew -- Commander Yury Onufrienko and Flight Engineers Dan Bursch and Carl Walz -- was never in any danger, but began quickly powering down backup equipment and several experiments in case the power generated by the station's solar arrays began to decrease. With the station's orientation not controlled, the solar arrays were not able to autonomously point directly at the sun to generate full power for the complex. The computer went off-line at about 7 a.m. CST.

Flight controllers in Houston and Moscow worked together to restore all operations of the station during the morning, and, at one point, the crew sent manual commands to ensure the solar arrays remained directed at the sun. Russian controllers have not yet determined the cause of the computer problem and are continuing to analyze it.

By 9:30 a.m., flight controllers at the control center in Korolev, Russia, had successfully restarted the computer, and, by 11:30 a.m., the station's orientation control system had begun to be restored to operation.

The crew began its sleep period as normal at around 3:30 p.m. CST. They will awaken at about midnight CST, and they will spend some time tomorrow continuing a recovery of the equipment that was powered down as a result of today's problem.

Information on the crew's activities aboard the space station, future launch dates and times, as well as station sighting opportunities from anywhere on the Earth, is available on the internet at: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov. Details on station science operations can be found on an internet site administered by the Payload Operations Center at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., at: http://www.scipoc.msfc.nasa.gov.

The next ISS status report will be issued Feb. 8, or sooner, if developments warrant.

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