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NASA's last space shuttle blasts into history

Updated: 2011-07-09 07:57

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NASA's last space shuttle blasts into history
Space Shuttle Atlantis is seen through the window of a Shuttle Training Aircraft as it launches from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center July 8, 2011. Atlantis rocketed off its seaside launch pad on Friday, rising atop a tower of smoke and flames as it left Earth on the shuttle program's final flight. [Photo/Agencies]

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