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Tracy Young/NASA Launch Commentator: This is Atlas Launch Control.

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Joining me now is NASA Launch Manager Tim Dunn. Good morning, Tim.

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NASA Launch Manager Tim Dunn (NLM): Good morning Tracy.

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Tracy Young/NASA Launch Commentator: Congratulations to you and the team for a

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successful launch.

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NASA Launch Manager Tim Dunn (NLM): Well thank you very much.

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We got a lot of thrilled analyst, engineers, spacecraft customers, range employees,

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as you can imagine.

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It was a wonderful event, a very smooth countdown. We had a couple of range items

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that we were working, none of which would have affected launch.

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All were on backup systems on the range.

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So, on behalf of NASA's Launch Services Program I would like to thank the Air Force

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and the range for great support today.

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I would also like to thank United Launch Alliance for giving us a great ride.

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Radiation Belt Storm Probes are now successfully separated, I just confirmed that

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before walking in to join you.

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And we also have good telemetry coming down from both spacecraft.

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So as you can imagine, our spacecraft customer from the Applied Physics Laboratory at

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John Hopkins University is thrilled right now.

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Obviously the spacecraft will be in early orbit checkout for a couple of months now.

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But we're all thrilled, just excited as can be.

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Tracy Young/NASA Launch Commentator: Like you said everything seemed to go

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very smoothly.

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NASA Launch Manager Tim Dunn (NLM): There were really no issues on the launch

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vehicle on the entire countdown.

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Weather started out with about a 30 percent chance of violation due to cumulus clouds.

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And the deeper we got into countdown, the better the weather got.

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Much unlike Saturday morning when we were here and the weather got much worse.

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Today was a terrific day to launch on the range and we're just very proud of the team.

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I can't say enough about the team, we worked really hard.

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A lot of folks put in a lot of hours. Our spacecraft customer is very happy and relieved

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now and we can all enjoy a holiday weekend.

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Tracy Young/NASA Launch Commentator: That's great well thank you for stopping

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by Tim and again congratulations to you and the team.

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NASA Launch Manager Tim Dunn (NLM): Thank you very much Tracy,

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Tracy Young/NASA Launch Commentator: To recap this morning's event,

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we had an on-time launch of the Radiation Belt Storm Probes aboard an Atlas V rocket

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from Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

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For more information on NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes mission,

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visit www.nasa.gov/rbsp.