Shuttle blasts off to fix Hubble

The space shuttle Atlantis has blasted off on an ambitious and risky mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope.

Atlantis ducked through clouds as it roared up at 1901 BST (1401 EDT) from Florida's Kennedy Space Center.

Mission managers have packaged a complex series of repairs and upgrades into five challenging spacewalks
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