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STS-117 Shuttle Mission Imagery
Terry W. Virts Jr. monitors weather data and launch countdown activities
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JSC2007-E-28281 (8 June 2007) --- In the space shuttle flight control room of Johnson Space Center's Mission Control Center (MCC), astronaut Terry W. Virts Jr., spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM), monitors weather data and 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.

Curator: Kim Dismukes | Responsible NASA Official: John Ira Petty | Updated: 06/09/2007
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