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>> [Inaudible].

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>> Ground.

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So use -- everything
is well on board.

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>> Ground umbilicals
being detached.

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>> Launch.

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>> Under 20 seconds, launch
command has been issued.

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>> [Inaudible].

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>> I can feel the
tower now separating.

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15 seconds and counting.

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>> Preliminary.

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>> Preliminary command
confirmed, engines firing.

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>> [Inaudible].

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>> Main liftoff.

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>> 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and liftoff.

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Tom Marshburn, Roman Romanenko,

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and Chris Hadfield making their
way towards the International

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Space Station.

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>> All parameters are normal.

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[Inaudible] is all on
board, we are feeling well.

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>> Getting good first
stage performance.

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The [inaudible] is
delivering 102 tons of thrust

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from its four strapped on
boosters and single core engine.

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>> Stages.

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>> First stage of that
[inaudible] measuring 68 feet

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in length and 24 feet in
diameter, burning liquid fuel

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for the first 2 minutes
and 6 seconds of flight.

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>> [Inaudible].

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>> 40 seconds, in-flight
stabilization is stable.

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>> Compression controllers
reporting all vehicle

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stabilization continuing
as planned.

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Flight is nominal.

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[ Silence ]

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>> 60 seconds.

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Your pitch all nominal, okay,
everything is nominal on board.

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We're feeling well.

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>> We're now 1 minute, 10
seconds into the flight,

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the rocket now moving at a
velocity of 1,100 miles an hour.

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Everything continuing
to look flawless.

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[ Silence ]

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First stage thrusters still
continuing to fire nominally.

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>> Flight stable, parameters
of the booster are stable.

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Okay. [Inaudible] we are
feeling great, we're feel --

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and there is vibration.

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>> Now 1 minute, 54 seconds in,

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the launch escape tower has been
jettisoned from the spacecraft.

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>> Ah, jettison confirmed.

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>> Now you can see the four
strap-on boosters separating 1

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minute, 58 seconds into
flight, being jettisoned.

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They've completed their job,
and dropped away at an altitude

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of about 28 statute miles,
Soyuz is now traveling

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at about 3,350 miles an hour.

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>> It's nominal on board.

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[ Silence ]

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>> [Inaudible].

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>> 1 57 seconds in
flight, stage --

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booster stage 2 is
functioning nominally.

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>> [Inaudible].

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>> So 2 minutes, 38
seconds now into the flight,

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the long shroud being
jettisoned.

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Rocket at an altitude now
of about 48 miles high.

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>> Confirm.

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[ Silence ]

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>> Crew inside, vehicle
stabilization still performing

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as planned, everything going
flawlessly on this launch.