Word: tsibliyevs
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...knocked the station into a slow roll, tipping its huge, energy-producing wings out of alignment with the sun. Unless the ship got realigned, it couldn't produce power. And unless the ship produced power, there was no way to fire up its thrusters and change its position. Tsibliyev reported this technological Catch-22 to the ground...
...fast are you rolling?" mission control asked. Tsibliyev looked at his dark instruments. "We don't know," he said...
...equal to about 1 1/2[degrees] of arc--a point of reference he could use, along with his watch, to determine how fast a spacecraft was moving. Foale swam over to the window, spent a few minutes watching stars come and go behind his thumb, and swam back to Tsibliyev and Lazutkin. "Tell them we're moving one degree per second," he said...
...been able to point it toward anything useful. With the solar panels still in shadow, the cabin lights and instrument panels went dead, and the fans and pumps that gave the spacecraft the atmosphere of a low-decibel boiler room fell silent. Huddling together in the main module, Tsibliyev, Lazutkin and Foale spent a few serene hours watching Earth roll silently by. All that disturbed their reverie was the periodic waving of flight plans about in order to fan away their exhaled carbon dioxide, which the ship's ventilators could no longer remove...
With ground control's approval, Tsibliyev climbed into the Soyuz, while Foale and Lazutkin looked for stars to help them establish their bearings...