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Atlantis Successfully Lifts Off, Capping the 30-Year Space Shuttle Program and Blowing My Mind
• John Mahoney via PopSci.comCasting aside a week of ominous weather, space shuttle Atlantis successfully lifted off at 11:29 AM EST today from Kennedy Space Center. A brief pause in the countdown at :31 seconds