[sarex] ISS COMPUTERS NOT UP TO DATE

SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C #31468 November 7, 2006

Glitch may force NASA to launch shuttle early

Dec. 6 slotted for Discovery

BY TODD HALVORSON FLORIDA TODAY

HOUSTON - NASA faces a Dec. 17 deadline to launch Discovery and avoid computer failures that could appear if the shuttle and its astronauts are flying during the year-end computer clock rollover from 2006 to 2007, officials said Monday.

The next chance to launch would be Jan. 14.

Here's the situation:

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