NASA to launch space shuttle Discovery on May 15

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WASHINGTON (AFP) — NASA will launch space shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station, and Atlantis will make the flight in July, the US space agency said, firming up plans for the resumption of space shuttle flights more than two years after the Columbia disaster.

"NASA's Space Flight Leadership Council met today and refined the launch planning window for Discoverys Return to Flight mission to May 15 to June 3, 2005," the US space agency said Friday.

"STS-114 will rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS)," with seven crew members on board, according to a NASA statement that described elaborate testing and system checks as almost completed.

Atlantis also has a mission to the ISS in the works, with a launch window of July 12-July 31, the...