Atlantis lifts off!

Monday, May 11, 2009 - 13:42 in Astronomy & Space

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 Centre in Florida, after an on-time liftoff at 2:01 PM EDT (18:01 GMT). 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...

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