Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Monday, May 11, 2009. Atlantis' seven-member crew will repair and deliver new instruments to the Hubble Space Telescope.
The lift-off of Space Shuttle Atlantis from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., is framed by palm trees on Monday, May 11, 2009.
Photographers record the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis Monday May 11, 2009 at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
Ryan Eddleman, along with hundreds of other people, waits to watch the space shuttle launch, near Veterans Park in Titusville, Fla. Monday, May 11, 2009, on a mission to repair the Hubble telescope.
Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Monday, May 11, 2009.
Space Shuttle Atlantis is seen on pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Monday, May 11, 2009.
Space shuttle Atlantis crew, from right, commander Scott D. Altman, pilot Gregory C. Johnson, mission specialist, K. Megan McArthur, mission specialist John Grunsfeld and mission specialist Andrew Feustel, mission specialist Michael Good and mission specialist Michael Massimino, leave the Operations and Checkout building enroute to board the shuttle at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, May 11, 2009.
Space shuttle Atlantis commander Scott D. Altman waves back to NASA employees and family before entering the astrovan at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canveral, Fla. Monday, May 11, 2009.
Space shuttle Atlantis crew from left, mission specialists Michael Massimino, Michael Good, Andrew Feustel, John Grunsfeld, Megan McArthur, pilot Gregory Johnson and commander Scott Altman leave the Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, May 11, 2009.
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.