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Astronaut Gregory H. Johnson, STS-125 spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM), 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' 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.