Shuttle blasts off for final Hubble fix

The space shuttle Atlantis blasted off successfully Monday afternoon on NASA's fifth and final repair visit to the Hubble Space Telescope.The spacecraft rocketed into mostly sunny skies right on schedule at 2:01 p.m. ET.Atlantis will spend five days upgrading the Hubble, the orbiting observatory that's been scanning the universe for almost two decades.For the seven members of the shuttle crew, that means added pressure."I think [this] is motivating us because we know there's nobody coming after us to do anything we don't get done," said Atlantis Commander Scott Altman. "This is it. We either get it done or it doesn't happen."It's been seven years since NASA's last Hubble servicing mission in 2002, and the space telescope was designed to go only about three years between fixes.