Computer Glitch Limits Next Shuttle Launch

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Computer glitch? Sounds More like incompetent programming... :-)

Via Reuters.

[snip]

A computer problem could force NASA to postpone next month's launch of
shuttle Discovery until 2007 to avoid having the spaceship in orbit
when the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve.

The shuttle is due to take off from the Kennedy Space Center in central
Florida on December 7 on a 12-day mission to continue construction of
the half-built International Space Station.

But if the launch is delayed for any reason beyond December 17 or 18,
the flight likely would be postponed until next year, officials at the
U.S. space agency said on Monday.

To build in added cushion, NASA may move up the take off to December 6.

[snip]

More:
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyid=2006-11-06T191457Z_01_N06275670_RTRUKOC_0_US-SPACE-SHUTTLE.xml

- ferg


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