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We Have Liftoff!

STOCC controllers watch the shuttle Atlantis launch.

Flight controllers in the Space Telescope Operations Control Center at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center watch shuttle Atlantis blast off on May 11, 2009, for the fifth and final shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. The work astronauts will do on Hubble is intended to extend the telescope's life by at least five years.

Credit: NASA/Ed Campion