Astronauts Eric Boe (left foreground) and Gregory H. Johnson (seated center), STS-125 spacecraft communicators (CAPCOM), monitor data at their consoles 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. Also pictured are flight directors Bryan Lunney (center standing), Norm Knight (seated, background) and Tony Ceccacci (right background); along with Brent Jett (left background), director, flight crew operations; and John McCullough, chief of the flight director office.
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Astronauts Eric Boe (left foreground) and Gregory H. Johnson (seated center), STS-125 spacecraft communicators (CAPCOM), monitor data at their consoles 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. Also pictured are flight directors Bryan Lunney (center standing), Norm Knight (seated, background) and Tony Ceccacci (right background); along with Brent Jett (left background), director, flight crew operations; and John McCullough, chief of the flight director office.