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Gibsonia Native Pilots Space Shuttle Atlantis

POSTED: 4:07 pm EST February 7, 2008
UPDATED: 4:24 pm EST February 7, 2008

At Cape Canaveral in Florida on Thursday, a Pittsburgh-area man led the launch of shuttle Atlantis.

The shuttle mission will put a new module for the international space station into orbit.

In command was Gibsonia native Stephen Frick.

Thursday's launch was the first of several planned spaceflights for 2008.

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