Shuttle Atlantis blasts off on last Hubble mission

Monday, May 11, 2009 - 13:56 in Astronomy & Space

(AP) -- Space shuttle Atlantis and a crew of seven thundered away Monday on one last flight to the Hubble Space Telescope, setting off on an extraordinarily ambitious repair mission that NASA hopes will lift the celebrated observatory to new scientific heights.

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