A federal judge will review an agreement to settle a desegregation case involving Huntsville city schools. The school system and the Justice Department released the agreement on Monday. It's aimed at resolving disputes over the racial fairness of a student attendance plan devised last year. The federal government objected to the plan arguing it didn't improve academic opportunities for black students. The school system agrees to take several steps in the settlement, which follows mediation sessions. Alabama’s future in space is a bit clearer today. Alabama Public Radio’s Pat Duggins has more on launch plans for NASA’s new commercial space capsules and how our state fits in. NASA says commercially built space capsule by Boeing and the Space-X company will undergo test flights in 2016. The goal is a manned test flight by 2017. Both capsules will carry astronauts and cargo to and from the International Space Station. Boeing’s spacecraft is called the CST-100 and it will be launched by an
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