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>> shepard: but first, from fox this friday night, right now high above our heads, space shuttle atlantis is chasing down the international space station. a hookup scheduled to happen in the next couple of days. after all, the worries of bad weather and a technical hiccup seconds before launch the shuttle took off shortly before 11:30 eastern this morning. after the shuttle commander told the launch director let's light this fire one more time. >> t minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5. all three engines up and burning. >> two, one, zero and lift-off. the final lift-off of atlantis on the shoulders of the ...

Couldn't let it go at that. you'll see what i mean. let's get started. first up, though, the shuttle launch, the next to last shuttle mission ever was supposed to take off friday afternoon, but just a few hours before the scheduled launch, nasa put things on hold. until a problem with the heating system could be sorted out. among the hundreds of thousands of speculators was congresswoman gabrielle giffords of arizona. that's because her husband mark kelly is the shuttle commander. giffords left a houston hospital earlier in the week to travel to kennedy space center. she's been recuperating ...

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