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this is Ares 1x launch control t-minus

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four minutes and holding with us here

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once again is john coward our deputy

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mission manager and he's going to try to

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put in context a little bit what's been

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occurring here in the last few minutes

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John I can say this only it's been a

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very interesting half hour so can you

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kind of go back to where we got the

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decision to pick up the counter and pull

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off the five hole probe cover and then

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go on down to our recycle well Georgia

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we've been on the same roller coaster

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with the all the folks listening around

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of course we had the the five hole probe

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cover issue which which certainly got

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our attention like I said after hundreds

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of tests of the probe that's the first

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time we'd ever seen that failure mode so

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we were very interestin see that but of

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course there was a huge applause here in

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the in the control room when the when it

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finally broke off and came clear we also

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had the the ship entering the danger

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zone out there glad they got that turned

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around and got that fixed but what that

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did was that did delay us enough such

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that as we were proceeding on through

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the terminal count there from t-minus

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four minutes one down where they were at

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the weather aircraft was out looking for

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clouds in the area just as he was doing

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his last pass and about to leave the

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area the cloud that he was monitoring

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and fortunately he had to be honest and

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report that it was just now passing over

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the pad and that violated our tribal

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electrification rule and at t minus 2 38

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that's one that our friends and the

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range had to call a cutoff for us so

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what we're doing now is we're standing

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by we think we see another region of

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availability out there we've recycled

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back to t minus four minutes we can hold

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here for a pretty good time we're

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monitoring all the parameters on the

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rocket everything seems to be

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maintaining steadily and we have hopes

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that within the next 45 minutes to an

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hour another clear zone which would

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allow us to avoid the tribal

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electrification problem would would pass

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over the

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the launch pad and we can get this

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rocket off today we have until noon for

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sure and but we're hoping sometime

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within the next hour we can watch so in

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that event it's a little after ten here

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now so we still got two hours to deal

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with this if the weather will go our way

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as far as I gather tribal

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electrification which is this is Lula

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we're all becoming very familiar with

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that's right now right now is what's

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driving everything but in any event

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thank you very much for kind of summing

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up for us the last half hour 45 minutes

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and we'll be listening for Jeff Spalding

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our launch test director to tell us so

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when the new targeted launch TZ was

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going to be I think they're still

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talking about this sir they are so I'm

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confident we're going to get another

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shot at it today at least all right John

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thanks very much and will now go back to

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listening to our launch test directors

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channel and try to get status as it

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comes in and if we get any updates on

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the weather from kathy winners will pass