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the dragon departure on saturday and the

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progress departure early this morning

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leave a couple of open parking spots the

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departure of dragon leaves the

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docking port and the harmony module

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available for the next american

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commercial cargo ship

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and at the mid-atlantic regional

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spaceport at nasa's wallops flight

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facility in virginia orbital sciences

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corporation is getting ready to launch

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its next cygnus vehicle that's coming up

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less than eight hours from now launch at

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5 45 pm central time

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to get the latest on the launch

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preparations we're joined this morning

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by the vice president of orbital's

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advanced programs group carl waltz good

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morning carl

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good morning pat

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glad to be here tell me how are things

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going at the launch site this morning we

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saw a picture of uh of the vehicle on

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the pad looks great

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well the the weather is beautiful and i

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i think uh we have a uh

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two percent chance of uh no-go weather

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which you know is as good as you can get

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so we're uh we're really excited about

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the opportunity to launch today

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um we have our uh

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ss deak slayton

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we've named the the cygnus uh in honor

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um with uh

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5055 pounds of pressurized cargo

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this will be the

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the fifth launch of the antares rocket

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this particular antares uh

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is uh the enhanced version it has a uh

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on november 2nd

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and uh you know so we'll be uh we'll be

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orbiting in space for uh for a little

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while after launch today uh just uh as

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you've noticed or mentioned that there

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are there's a lot of activity going on

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us and russian vehicles and so

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we have to take our turn and november

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2nd was the day designated and so we're

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we'll be happy to arrive at that point

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is there any impact for you folks in

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maintaining the ship on orbit over that

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no problem at all we'll

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nasa mission control there in houston to

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find a location uh nearby or not nearby

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but basically co-altitude uh with the

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iss probably somewhere between a

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thousand and two thousand kilometers

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behind the station and we will uh just

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station keep there um and then wait for

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our turn and then it's a matter of uh

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doing a couple of burns to to get us

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back onto the rendezvous profile for for

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november 2nd

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what are the milestones we should look

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for coming up this afternoon as you move

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uh well we'll be

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getting ready to

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to fuel the fuel the rocket so that

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should be happening

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sometime uh around three hours prior to

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and then we'll be looking for uh the

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to give us a go to launch

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is the team

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into a better rhythm about how the whole

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um yes i think the uh you know uh you

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relationship here with uh

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the nasa folks at nasa wallops uh

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the the range here is uh a nasa range

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we're very excited uh

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to be working with the nasa team here we

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also work with the mid-atlantic regional

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spaceport

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uh from the commonwealth of virginia

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and uh dale nash is the leader of that

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group and uh he just uh does a wonderful

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job he's a veteran of uh shuttle flights

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and and so he's uh he's very uh

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very well versed in uh you know uh

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making things uh making good things

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happen uh in space launches and so uh so

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with uh with the the wallops range and

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then with mid-atlantic regional

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spaceport to

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off the pad today and on our way to the

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space station now launch time is 6 45

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eastern time this qualifies a night

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time uh the space station will be flying

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overhead so it's uh so we'll get to see

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both the uh uh

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same time any particular challenges for

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a night launch as opposed to daytime

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there's there's no real

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difference you know once the uh once the

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uh the main engines of the uh of the

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antares uh um

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uh once they light you know it's gonna

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get very bright and uh

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you know we'll uh uh all the ground

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tracking uh you know we'll uh we'll have

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no problem seeing the uh seeing the

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vehicle and then uh

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we should be able to see it uh well on

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its way downrange uh you know with uh

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you know with uh with the darkness so

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it actually should be uh much more

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visible than uh than it would be during

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a uh during a day launch

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you mentioned a moment ago too that this

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cygnus has been named the ss d slayton

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uh tell us why orbital's chosen to honor

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deke slayton in this way

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well deeks leighton you know was a uh

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you know certainly a military pilot

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combat veteran test pilot mercury 7

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astronaut

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flight crew operations

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flew

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on the apollo soyuz test mission

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but in addition to that

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yeah deke uh was involved

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in the birth of commercial uh space

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transportation and he worked for a

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company called space services

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and uh and developed uh

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worked to develop the commercial space

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to uh permit

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you know more commercial opportunities

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uh for companies to

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uh to provide access to orbit and so so

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he really uh he really was a trailblazer

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in a number of different ways both for

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nasa and for uh commercial commercial

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space launch and that's that's why we're

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honoring him today

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all is uh very exciting for uh been got

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an eye on the on the vehicle and on your

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control room there

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good luck this afternoon

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all right well thank you very much pat

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carl waltz is the vice president of the

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advanced programs group and orbital

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sciences corporation which is preparing

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to launch its uh

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third cygnus cargo vehicle to the

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international space station nasa tv will

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be carrying today's launch live our

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broadcast will get started at 4 45 pm

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central time the launch of the cygnus