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George Diller, NASA Launch Commentator: And
joining us here at the console in the

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Mission Director Center, is Tim Dunn. He was
the NASA Launch Director for this flight.

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Tim, congratulations because the NASA Administrator
has just given you an award

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and some congratulations.

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Tim Dunn, NASA Launch Director: Well, thank
you, George.

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George Diller, NASA Launch Commentator: Tell
us briefly, what did he say to you?

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Tim Dunn, NASA Launch Director: Well, it was
just a special opportunity for us as a launch

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team to have

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the administrator with us. He sat with us
on console and recognized the team after we

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had successful

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GRAIL A and GRAIL B separation. So, it's a
special moment that the team's enjoying right

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now

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with the NASA administrator.

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George Diller, NASA Launch Commentator: Well
the countdown was interesting, I guess, it

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had a little

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bit of suspense and drama because it looked
like we were almost face-to-face with exactly

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the situation

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we had Thursday with upper-level winds. But
how did they work through that?

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It's not like they were busy in Denver working
software to try to help us get us a program

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to get us to launch.

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Tim Dunn, NASA Launch Director: Exactly. We
had a great countdown today.

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Very smooth countdown for the launch vehicle.
We had no launch vehicle anomalies.

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That Delta II rocket absolutely is a gem in
getting it ready to launch.

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The range . . . we had a beautiful range today.
All downrange assets were operational.

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Our spacecraft was ready to go, had no SV
issues.

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So the only issue we were working throughout
the count was upper-level winds again.

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We briefly went "green" about midway through
the count, right as we were doing launch loading.

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Then put another balloon up an got "red" data
again and as you mentioned,

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we worked our way through that.

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George Diller, NASA Launch Commentator: Right
now we got one more launch replay we want

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to show

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you which was taken from Port Canaveral