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Astronauts Steve Frick (left) and Chris Ferguson, STS-129 spacecraft communicators (CAPCOM), are pictured at their 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.