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John McCullough (seated foreground), chief of the flight director office; and Brent Jett (seated at right), director, flight crew operations; along with flight directors Tony Ceccacci (standing, left) and Norm Knight (standing, right), are pictured 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' scheduled STS-125 launch to service the Hubble Space Telescope. Liftoff was on time at 2:01 p.m. (EDT) on May 11, 2009 from launch pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.