NASA has set January 10, 2008, as the target date for the launch of STS-122. That will give the engineers time to solve the fuel sensor problem that stopped a launch in early December, while giving NASA personnel a few days off over the holidays.
The space shuttle program is scheduled to end in 2010, and the construction of the ISS must be completed before that, because the station's modules are specifically designed to fit in the shuttle's payload bay. Many more month-long delays could force some decisions NASA would rather not make.
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