Arthur Rowe schrieb:
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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In which language have they programmed the control computers ? In COBOL ? ;-) Just curious !
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