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*Endeavour Lifts Off! * *Launch Date:* Aug. 8 *Launch Time:* 6:36 p.m. EDT

Image above: Space Shuttle Endeavour during liftoff. Photo credit: NASA TO VIEW IMAGE GO TO:http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html

*08.08.07 - 6:36 p.m. EDT* Cheers and shouts can be heard throughout the Space Center as Endeavour, carrying the STS-118 crew, roars off the launch pad into the late afternoon sky to begin the 22nd mission to the International Space Station.