NASA confirms shuttle Endeavour to launch August 7

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla, July 26 (Reuters) The US space agency NASA today confirmed it will try to launch the space shuttle Endeavour on August 7 on the spacecraft's first mission in nearly five years.

Endeavour, fresh from a complete overhaul and the last of NASA's three remaining shuttles to return to flight following the 2003 Columbia disaster, is due to carry out a construction mission to the 0-billion International Space Station.

It will be NASA's second shuttle flight of the year.

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