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\h        Launch Commentator George Diller: Go for main engine start.

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\h        T-10

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\h        9

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\h        8

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\h        7

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\h        6

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\h        (Roar of engines igniting)

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\h        5

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\h        All three engines up and burning.

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\h        Two

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\h        One

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\h        zero and liftoff!

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\h        The final liftoff of Atlantis. On the shoulders of the space shuttle,

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\h        America will continue the dream.

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\h        Commander Chris Ferguson: Roll program, Houston.

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\h        CAPCOM Barry Wilmore: Roger Roll, Atlantis.

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\h        Flight Commentator Rob Navius: Houston now controlling the flight of Atlantis.

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\h        The space shuttle spreads it wings one final time for the start of a

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\h        sentimental journey into history.

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\h        Twenty-four seconds into the flight, roll program complete,

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\h        Atlantis now heads-down, wings level on the proper alignment for its eight-and-half

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\h        minute ride into orbit.

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\h        Four and half million pounds of hardware and humans taking aim on the

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\h        International Space Station.

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\h        Forty seconds in to the flight, the three liquid-fueled main engines throttling back to

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\h        72 percent of their rated performance in the bucket, reducing stress on the shuttle

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\h        as it goes transonic for the final time.

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\h        Engines now revving up, standing by for the throttle-up call.

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\h        CAPCOM Barry Wilmore: Atlantis, go at throttle up, no action DTDT.

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\h        Commander Chris Ferguson: Go at throttle up, no action on the DTDT.

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\h        Flight Commentator Rob Navius: That call from CAPCOM Barry Wilmore a transducer,

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\h        instrumentation only, no action required.

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\h        Atlantis now 15 miles in altitude, already 16 miles downrange from the

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\h        Kennedy Space Center, one minute, 40 seconds into the flight.

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\h        Atlantis flexing its muscles one final time.

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\h        Atlantis traveling almost 2,600 mph, 21 miles in altitude, 24 miles downrange.

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\h        Standing by for solid rocket booster separation.

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\h        Booster officer confirms staging, a good solid rocket booster separation,