1.   It also will furnish much of the station with thermal control, computer communications, closed-circuit television and guidance signals to point the outpost correctly.

2.   No one returned, and critical guidance computers, power storage batteries and thermal control systems began to falter.

3.   Next, Smith and Walheim teamed to attach power, computer and thermal control cables to the girder.

4.   The leaking joint was plugged, but malfunctions in the thermal control system persist.

5.   The Wake Shield has flown twice previously but was handicapped by attitude and thermal control problems that hindered the goal of producing high-performance semiconductor components.

6.   What Foale described as the most troubling problem on Mir now is the leaking thermal control system.

7.   Last spring, the previous Mir crew spent weeks in the heat trying to patch up the thermal control system, which leaked poisonous antifreeze fumes.