201107080017hq (8 July 2011) --- Space shuttle Atlantis is seen as it launches from Launch Pad 39A July 8, 2011, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The launch of Atlantis, STS-135, is the final flight of the Space Shuttle Program, a 12-day mission to the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls