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Era. atlantis is up next on the pad. ready for a final flight. cnn's john zarrella is there at ken ken space center this morning in florida preparing for that launch. hi, john. >> reporter: hi, kyra. you're absolutely right. i talked to some people at nasa a little while ago and they were saying that over at visitors center right now 9,000 people bought tickets to come and watch this shuttle launch. everybody wants to be here now as they're counting down to last shuttle flights and atlantis is sitting on pad, ready to go, 12-day mission and six astronauts should be out on the pad within the ho...

This was not seen as an issue that would delay the launch, but they are debating whether they think this is more serious or a ball bearing that came out of this camera or a small ball bearing found by one of their team members which go over the shuttle stack in and around the launch pad prior to every launch. at this moment. it's hard to overhear what they are saying as to what they are going to do. the mission management team's recommendation is we continue with the green light heading towards the 2:20 eastern time launch. the engineers and the truly rocket scientists at nasa looking at this ...

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Necessary changes and move on. >> reporter: nasa celebrated the 29th anniversary of the shuttle launch. >> it's time to look back and reflect about all the great things that the space shuttle has brought us over the last 29 years. and so i think we're going, we're going places, we're going, we're doing a lot of interesting stuff up here. >> reporter: but the future of deep space exploration is changing. president obama is charting a new course for nasa. >> i am 100% committed to the mission of nasa and its future. >> reporter: back in washington, justice john paul stevens announced his retirem...

Get as close as we are, so the folks here are here with their cameras and their videocameras and they're really documenting the flight for whatever reason, but it was really neat when we came over from cocoa beach, you could see trailers lining the area because people do come down. this is one of those things you tell your kids about, you talk to your grandkids about. it's really neat. juliet: how loud is it? >> reporter: extremely loud, on a scale of 1-10, i'd say 15. juliet: that's loud, bill. kris gutierrez, thanks, good to see you, thanks for the report. >> no problem. juliet: have you eve...