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Space Shuttle Atlantis Size:20" x 25" Its final cruise came OctoberIn a blaze of fire and smoke, Atlantis lifts off from Launch Pad 39 A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on its final mission, bound for the International Space Station, July 8, 2011. The Atlantis was a workhouse, embarking on 33 missions over a period of 25 years. "For the last time, the engines of a space shuttle roared, the ground rumbled, and the shuttle Atlantis rose off the launching pad and disappeared into the clouds," wrote The Times. "By