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Endeavour successfully launches as shuttle program winds down
Posted: 05.16.2011 at 10:16 AM
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The space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday.  / AP photo
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Endeavour blasted off on NASA's next-to-last shuttle flight, thundering through clouds into orbit Monday morning as the mission commander's wounded wife, Gabrielle Giffords, watched.

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