Mon, 11 May 2009 13:02:11 -0500
With its main engines burning and solid rocket boosters roaring, space shuttle Atlantis is blazing a trail through cloudless afternoon skies over NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, after an on-time liftoff at 2:01 p.m. EDT.
Atlantis and its crew of seven astronauts are picking up speed as they begin an 11-day mission to service NASA's Hubble Space Telescope one last time. The climb to orbit takes about 8 1/2 minutes. Stand by for main engine cutoff at 2:10 p.m.
Liftoff of Space Shuttle Atlantis!
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