The National Aeronautics and Space Administration confirmed Friday that US space shuttle flights, suspended since the Columbia shuttle disaster in February 2003, will resume next March or April.
"We did not shift the date. We are still looking to fly in this large opening window starting on March 6 and ending on the 18th of April," Michael Kostelnik, NASA official in charge of the International Space Station and the space shuttle programme, said in a telephone press conference.