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Space Mission Begins Photos

The sun sets on the space shuttle Atlantis Sunday, May 10, 2009, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. With a forecast of near-perfect weather, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope scientists and managers were euphoric as they awaited Monday's planned launch of shuttle Atlantis on the final trip to the orbiting observatory.

(Photo: AP Photo)

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