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very good agreements and an excellent

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separation and I'm joined right now by

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Bruce Bennett of NASA's Jet Propulsion

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little bit about the insight mission and

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principal investigator of the mission

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and sort of in charge of the overall

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success the scientific success of the

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mission and so I have to kind of oversee

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eye towards making sure that it's going

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to do the science that that we propose

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that we've basically been tasked by NASA

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to provide from this mission and what is

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for for the insight well the insight is

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planetary differentiation and and how

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the planets the rocky planets start out

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planets take a path that becomes a

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habitable planet like the earth and

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learn about by studying Mars we can also

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surface of Mars well we have about a six

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marsquakes and maybe what you expect to

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to the NASA Administrator will be coming

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sir you're active on countdown to

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yes mr. Bryton Stein this is if I'm done

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well hello Jim how are you I'm doing

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just fine sir well in my life for the

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audience you are live and we've got the

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to you on our countdown Channel oh well

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thank you so much Jim it's it's an honor

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congratulate them on 128 total

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successful launches in a row 78

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thank our international partners kanessa

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and DLR for their hard work this is this

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which is a first-ever we're going to

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world and it really establishes American

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at the headquarters and especially me

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to doing the science and doing all this

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harvesting of everything we've been

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level of excitement out here we are

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thrilled to be part of a first ever

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interplanetary and thank you and mr.

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this morning awesome congratulations you

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hear from our new administrator and you

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can follow him on Twitter at Jim

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bridenstine tonight's launch of the

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separated it's been a great night here

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from the mission director center at

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Vandenberg Air Force Base and with that

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Stephanie thanks Josh

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it was a beautiful launch tonight and I

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believe that we have a recap of

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tonight's launch with Josh and Blair

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hey thanks Stephanie I tell you what it

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was it's been a it's been a great day

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yes great launched it was great to hear

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from from the NASA Administrator from

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the associate administrator for science

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Mission Directorate and from Tim Dunn

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the launch director on a job well done

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to the insight team and to the marketing

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well and of course we've also heard for

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a lot from the the principal

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investigators a deputy principal

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investigator very exciting stuff going

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on and as you heard mentioned several

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times a lot of enthusiasm

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I mean look people have been out here

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early morning and the enthusiasm is

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keeping everybody on point no for us

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Stephanie it's it for us Stephanie it's

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been you know from the roll out roll

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back of the the mobile service platform

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and in seeing you know the rocket out of

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the pad it was really cool and then to

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kind of wait you know there's three

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four-hour to get excited for the launch

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yeah absolutely and and to talk to

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5-hour Jim Green who is just full of

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energy and excitement and it just really

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makes you get really excited about

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planetary science and learning more

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about Mars is cool I mean we didn't

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actually see the launch because of the

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fog but you felt it right it was it was

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palpable it was tactile that's right and

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so now we have spacecraft separation

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Marco in sight it's on its way to Mars

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and now we just have to wait till

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November 26 that's right and of course

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Marco will be right there with them to

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get data from the from the ground can't

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wait that's right it's been a great day

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a great launch and we're looking forward

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to the landing of insight do you keep

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the energy going thank you both

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Torrey McClendon is standing by in the

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remote launch control center with a very

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excited launch director Tori there we go

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Thank You Stephanie all right Tim so I

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know how excited you and your team has

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been for this long-awaited day tell us

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how it went today Wow

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so we just had spacecraft separation I

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mean it's thrilling

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we got a spacecraft on its way to Mars

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it's been an incredible day night

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long long evening forests been up for a

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long time but it was a actually an

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incredibly smooth countdown weather here

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on the central California coast I know

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except for the fog it was incredible

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apologize for the visibility the low-vis

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of the viewers but I hear it put on

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quite a show for sound apparently did

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yes but so all the weather constraints

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were met even the visibility constraint

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that got a lot of discussion over the

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last couple of days the range assets

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here at the 30th Space Wing at

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Vandenberg Air Force Base performed

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exceptionally well no problems there we

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woke the spacecraft up about 45 minutes

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before launch it woke up on time and it

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was did not have one bit of problem from

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the spacecraft and then the launch

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vehicle the mighty Atlas performed yet

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again we had a little bit of discussion

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early in the count down about a ground

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system valve we worked through that no

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problems and then late in the count we

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had a few alarms that we needed to spend

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a little bit of time understood those

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they were not actual real alarms about

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the rocket so that took us right up to

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about L - so 6 minutes or so and and

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then from then on it was smooth sailing

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down to t0 right on time at the opening

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of the window the ula launch team

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demonstrated once again what an

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incredible team they are and the NASA

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team that came alongside ula I'm just a

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small part of that team and incredibly

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proud to work for the launch services

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program team and then certainly our

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customer from the Jet Propulsion

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Laboratory that actually did all of the

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hard heavy lifting with the inside

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spacecraft Lockheed Martin built the

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spacecraft in Denver JPL worked

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alongside them so just on all sides just

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an incredible team and if you saw any of

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the video of us in the control room

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celebrating it's just it's what a relief

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to have a mission success spacecraft on

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its way happy healthy we've acquired the

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the first telemetry signals from inside

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already so we know it's doing well great

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well thank you so much for joining us

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Stephanie back to you thank you both

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this concludes our live launch coverage

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of the United Launch alliances Atlas

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five rocket with NASA's insight and

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Marco spacecraft which are heading to