Atlantis STS-135 lifts-off on the final space shuttle mission at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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On Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Atlantis travels upward on streams of flame as it lifts off on its STS-135 mission to the International Space Station. Atlantis with its crew of four; Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley, Mission Specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim, lifted off at 11:29 EDT on July 8, 2011

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Location: Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
Photo credit: © NASA Photo / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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