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there was this really amazing moment at

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the end here when we were looking over

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the rover one last time and and making

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sure that that what we were seeing was

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good for flight it's that final moment

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you spend with the vehicle at last

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sanity check does everything look right

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is anything out of place is it really

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ready to fly because we're about to send

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our baby on a very long journey to go

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spend its life exploring the surface of

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Mars that's that's a big leap of faith

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to be able to hand off the vehicle they

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have a great team on the launch vehicle

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side and there they're ready to take

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care of her but we are we are definitely

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it's a very happy and sad day when you

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launcher it's very much i equated to say

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having your daughter get married we

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basically brought her into existence we

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powered her up we spoke to her and our

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team understands how she reacts her

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emotions her idiosyncrasies she's been

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ours all along and now i'm going to hand

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her off to the next team and they'll get

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to run her they've always been on deck

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waiting for us to get out of the way

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confirmation that would go for lunch at

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this time good as launch approaches of

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course the pressure does ratchet up and

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your start to worry did we think of

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everything that could possibly go wrong

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do we have all of our procedures ready

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there are a lot of what-ifs and you you

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question yourself and your team are you

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ready to handle this but ultimately you

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know that you've been trained to do this

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and you are ready to do this and you've

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got a great team around doing a great

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space craft ready to go and you ask if

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I'm nervous the answer is absolutely I'm

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nervous am i confident that she's going

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to go and she's going to be successful

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absolutely it's going to go and she'll

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be good the other day we closed the two

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hatches up on the Atlas and I was able

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to touch that I was able to touch the

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the rover when I disconnected the purge

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from the rad system and that was kind of

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an emotional thing you know almost turn

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around walked away from it and QA

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weaseled Alain Delon wait a minute this

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is the last time you're gonna be able to

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touch this thing and I'm like I really

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that's true so I'm over there stroking

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it like a little puppy and had to walk

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away from it and to realize that it's

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almost done and then it's ready to go

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you're almost kind of disappointed it's

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over with but you're ready to move on to

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something else and I'm ready to crack

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that champagne open when that thing

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lights and goes and we got to wait till

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august of next year to see it do its

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business and that's what it's all about

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is this golden couple of weeks that

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happens just before launch which is that

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we're really kind of done testing we're

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done encapsulating the vehicle it's it's

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not part of the launch vehicle providers

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job to to get it integrated and and

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mounted on top of the rocket and as far

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as the spacecraft goes it's kind of

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client when you see what a rocket really

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does in practice it's an amazing thing

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when it works the launch team is really

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excited so this is very difficult this

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morning launching something though the

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planet is really hard now you all we

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make it look II if not rocketry is still

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a less-than-perfect business failures do

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happen you kinda have to make your peace

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with the notion it's like a suspension

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of disbelief meaning that in order to

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get through it you have to believe that

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rocket launches can only go perfectly

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the good news is almost always they