STS-125 Atlantis Launch 11 May 2009

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.
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T-minus 10 seconds, go for main engine start, T-minus 7, 6, 5, engine ignition, 3, 2, 1 and LIFTOFF! Liftoff of space shuttle Atlantis on a final mission to renew astronomy's greatest observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope!

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• Atlantis Launch
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[hanzaninja3]

how cool would it be to get on one of those things.... God I love the U.S... You guys have so much cool shit!!! Wish Australia still had a space program :(

[ScottKin]

Apparently, they had some "instrumentation" problems concerning the left MPS (Main Propulsion System) Engine - see my post in watch?v=nZolVCyn6L8 - but yet again a testament to NASA and the Shuttles!

[souljagirlroker]

i watched this on tv

[skkoul]

Wow...isn't that Amazing!! It is just the beginning of the great show...