A successful lift-off of the space shuttle Atlantis took place on 23:38:04 UTC on June 8th, 2007 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Atlantis took off after a long delay due to damage from a hail storm earlier this ...

Space Shuttle Discovery launch – mission STS-121 – was the third launch attempt in four days after previous ones were scrubbed due to weather concerns. Liftoff was on-time at 2:38 p.m. EDT on July 4th, 2006. The Orbital Insertion Altitude ...