ISS malfunction in June 2007

AFP: Back in the space race: Russian revival raises new questions
"It wants Russia's help as the troubled US Space Shuttle is due to be taken out of service in 2010 and a replacement is not due before 2014.

Moscow says it is happy to comply. It plans to double the number of Soyuz launches from 2009 to four a year and could carry out 10 launches a year by 2015 with the planned production of a six-seater vehicle, says a top official with spacecraft producer RKK Energiya, Alexander Derechin."
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gRk99GNVoH86nqbv02LPbMtAIjqg

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IEEE Spectrum: Space Station: Internal NASA Reports Explain Origins of June Computer Crisis
In the weeks that followed the crisis and apparent recovery, station commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and his fellow cosmonaut Oleg Kotov disassembled the boxes and cabling and inspected every angle of the hardware, occasionally assisted by their American crewmate, Clayton Anderson. Multiple scopes and probes had failed to find the flaw, but their eyes and fingers eventually did.
The connection pins from the power-monitoring device they'd bypassed earlier, they found, were wet—and corroded. The final report described the “change in appearance” of fasteners on one box's connectors and noted “the presence of deposits and residue on the housings, and residue and spots on the contact surfaces.”
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/oct07/5598


International Space Station malfunction in June could have been catastrophic - Anablog - Blog on EDN - 1700000170
"All three computers shut down because they ran a “shutdown” signal on the same connector as the three power feeds and that connector got wet and shorted from condensate that was induced by a nearby humidifier. "
http://www.edn.com/index.asp?layout=blog&blog_id=1700000170&blog_post_id=1780015978