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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Blue mach diamonds appear beneath the main engines on Space Shuttle Endeavour as it hurtles into the sky on mission STS-118. In the background, lower right, are the Banana Creek, Cape Canaveral beaches and the Atlantic Ocean. The 22nd shuttle flight to the International Space Station, the mission will continue space station construction by delivering a third starboard truss segment, S5, and other payloads such as the SPACEHAB module and the external stowage platform 3. Liftoff of Endeavour was on time at 6:36 p.m. EDT. Photo credit: NASA/John Kechele, Scott Haun, Tom Farrar