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Two Russian cosmonauts began to get crucial computers up and running Friday, four days after they crashed at the international space station and curbed the outpost's ability to orient itself and produce oxygen.

..."We feel like the computers are stable and back to normal," said Mike Suffredini, space station program manager.

Cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov pulled off the feat by bypassing a power switch with a cable to get four out of six processors on two computers running.

The computers began operating the cooling system in one of the space station's Russian modules. But Suffredini said engineers would look at how the computers performed overnight before deciding whether they can start running other space station systems Saturday.

Suffredini said he doesn't expect the two processors that currently aren't working to come back online. They will be replaced.