NASA clears Y2K hurdle

January 3, 2000
Web posted at: 4:10 p.m. EST (2110 GMT)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (CNN) -- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Monday it has launched into the new century with few Y2K-related difficulties.

During the primary monitoring period (8 a.m. EST December 31 through 3 a.m. EST January 1) the agency suffered a few minor anomalies that were easily fixed, NASA said in a statement.

Only one, involving a piece of planning software, appeared to be Y2K related, and it did not affect any mission-critical systems, NASA said.

The Kennedy Space Center (KSC) said Saturday it had launched into the new century with no Y2K-related difficulties.

"There were no issues, concerns or problems and the change to Year 2000 at midnight was transparent to KSC computers and flight hardware," the space center said in a statement.

Events were being monitored closely on Monday as most staff return and administrative computer systems are turned on for normal work.

NASA's last mission of the century ended on Monday when the space shuttle Discovery landed safely in Florida after repairing the Hubble Space Telescope during an eight-day mission.

NASA had worried that the shuttle could be vulnerable to a Y2K problem if it was still aloft when the new year dawned.

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