In the space shuttle flight control room of Johnson Space Center's Mission Control Center (MCC), flight controllers monitor launch countdown activities a few hundred miles away in Florida, site of Space Shuttle Atlantis' scheduled STS-117 launch. Liftoff occurred at 7:38 p.m. (EDT) on June 8, 2007 from launch pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center.
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In the space shuttle flight control room of Johnson Space Center's Mission Control Center (MCC), flight controllers monitor launch countdown activities a few hundred miles away in Florida, site of Space Shuttle Atlantis' scheduled STS-117 launch. Liftoff occurred at 7:38 p.m. (EDT) on June 8, 2007 from launch pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center.