PHOTOS: Final space shuttle launch: STS-135 Atlantis

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Space shuttle Atlantis found a hole in the clouds and launched into history back on July 8, 2011, dazzling hundreds of thousands of spectators who mobbed Florida's coast to see the program's final flight. Rising atop two pillars of flame, NASA's last active shuttle soon disappeared into the low clouds, but not before giving tourists, employees, and journalists the sight of a lifetime.