Moscow - The Russian space station Mir was orbiting the Earth normally on Monday despite the second failure in a week of its main computer, space officials said yesterday.
Mission Control spokesman Ms Vera Medvedkova said the breakdown occurred early on Saturday morning in two units of a new computer installed by the station's Russian-American crew at the beginning of October.
The units were replaced early on Sunday morning with replacements delivered to the space station earlier in October and the station was now operating normally.