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Stefanie Gordon captured this remarkable picture on a flight from New York to Palm Beach, Fla., after the final liftoff of space shuttle Endeavour near Cape Canaveral on Monday, May 16. “It’s awe inspiring. I would never expect to be that close,” Gordon said. “I didn’t grasp the magnitude until after the fact.” She also didn’t anticipate the response she got. “I’ve been retweeted by NASA, The Weather Channel. … I can’t even keep up with my friends! It’s really overwhelming. I just got off the plane and tweeted what I saw.” Gordon was grateful for the in-flight announcement from the pilot. “I was asleep and happened to wake up," she said. Her first thought: “Great – the one time I don’t have my camera with me.” She shot the photos and the video on an iPhone 3Gs. A self-described  lover of photography, Gordon usually keeps a trusty Canon PowerShot camera on hand, mostly for shooting pictures at Yankees’ games, where she’s a season ticket holder.

Mission:  STS-134 Space Shuttle:   Endeavour Primary Payload:   Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer  and ELC-3 Launch Date:  May 16 Launch Time:  8:56 a.m. EDT Launch Pad:  39A Landing:  June 1 Landing Time:  2:32 a.m. EDT Landing Site:  Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Mission Duration:  16 days Inclination/Altitude:  51.6 degrees/122 nautical miles Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of six astronauts are headed for space, ready to begin their 16-day mission to the International Space Station. The climb to orbit takes about 8 1/2 minutes. Following a relatively smooth countdown, the weather cooperated leading to an on-time liftoff from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 8:56 a.m. EDT.