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Translated into English, they are telling me that something is wrong with the system for regulating the temperature of the coolant fluid which is necessary to keep all my fancy equipment operating at the proper temperature. If the system gets too cold, it is possible for the radiators sunk in the skin of the service module to freeze, and then I will have serious problems. Further, they are telling me to dig into my library and refer to Environmental Control System Malfunction Procedure 17… For some reason I cannot explain, I do not wade through Malfunction 17. It is an involved procedure, and it seems like radical surgery to me. Instead, I simply check all my switch positions and flip the one which controls the offending temperature from automatic to manual, then back to automatic again. Somehow I feel very confident about this machine, and I am not too concerned about this problem. Let's give the machine a chance to cure itself. As the quiet minutes tick by, I keep one eye on the temperature gauge as I go about my other housekeeping duties, such as dumping excess water produced by the fuel cells. By golly, everything seems to be returning to normal, and when I finally swing around into view of the earth, I am able to report, whatever the problem was, it seems to have gone away without any changing of J52 sensors or anything like that. My glycol evaporator outlet TEMP is up above fifty now, and it's quite comfortable in the cockpit.