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Flight director Bryan Lunney (foreground) watches the big screens from his console in the space shuttle flight control room in the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center during launch countdown activities a few hundred miles away in Florida, site of Space Shuttle Atlantis' STS-129 launch. Liftoff was on time at 2:28 p.m. (EST) on Nov. 16, 2009 from launch pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Astronauts Chris Ferguson (center) and Steve Frick, STS-129 spacecraft communicators (CAPCOM), are visible in the background.