Public Affairs Office commentator Rob Navias watches the large screens in the space shuttle flight control room of Johnson Space Center's Mission Control Center (MCC) during launch countdown activities a few hundred miles away in Florida, site of Space Shuttle Atlantis' scheduled STS-122 launch. Liftoff occurred at 2:45 p.m. (EST) on Feb. 7, 2008 from launch pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center.
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117456812" class="extiw" title="d:Q117456812"><span title="American photographer">Robert Markowitz</span></a>
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