Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-125 mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. 11/05/2009 Video images from the perfect liftoff to orbit

11.May.2009 Atlantis Space Shuttle and STS-125 seven astronauts crew lifted off Launch Pad 39A from Kenedy Space Center - Florida to perform a servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. STS-125 also called HST-SM4 (Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4) is the final shuttle mission to NASA's Hubble. The STS-125 is the 30th flight of Atlantis Shuttle and the first mission not visiting a space station since 1994 (also first mission not visiting ISS from Columbia disaster in 2003). Because of the orbit difference between International Space Station (ISS) and Hubble Telescope, Atlantis would have been uncapable to get to ISS in case of a issue damaging its protective shield. For that reason, the STS-125 program was backed-up with another shuttle - Space Shuttle Endeavour ready to liftoff from Launch Pad 39B on a Launch On Need (LON) mission to save Atlantis crew.
Complete and great video footage of the STS-125 and Space Shuttle Atlantis from liftoff to orbit (Atlantis feedline camera).