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Space shuttle Atlantis emerges from the exhaust cloud during liftoff on its STS-129 mission.

Like a phoenix rising from the flames, space shuttle Atlantis emerges from the exhaust cloud on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Liftoff on the STS-129 mission occurred on ...

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