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With five astronauts aboard, the space shuttle Endeavour blasts off Thursday night from Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., beginning an 11-day international space station assembly mission. The shuttle is carrying massive solar wings that are needed to energize the station.

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