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this is Atlas launch control little more

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than an hour after an extremely

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successful launch today we are very

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happy to be joined by tim dunn/nasa

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launch manager for the mission with the

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launch services program here at nasa's

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kennedy space center in florida great

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job beautiful maiden launch

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Thank you Thank You terrific day can't

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say enough about the team what a

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terrific performance by the combined

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atlas 5 team beautiful day

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everything started about noon here on

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the east coast of Florida we powered up

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the rocket after a great roll out

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yesterday and everything went absolutely

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smooth all that bad weather we had last

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week and over the weekend and cleared

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out gorgeous weather here perfect

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weather to launch an atlas 5 or any

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rocket and this was an excellent launch

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great performance by the team we came in

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oh I guess about four-and-a-half hours

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prior to launch we got ourselves all set

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up ready to load the cryo propellants

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the super-cold propellants on the first

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and second stage of the Atlas 5 and that

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all went absolutely smooth not a single

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anomaly was work during the countdown

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almost unheard of so loops were so quiet

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it was unbelievable and it's it's it's a

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launch directors dream at the team is

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marvelous

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we've got just an incredible team the

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combined team here from the United

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Launch Alliance who does all the heavy

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lifting in preparing the Atlas 5 we've

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got a terrific Air Force range team that

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sets up a beautiful range for us to

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launch on the spacecraft was absolutely

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rock-solid in its in its readiness

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sequence today and that's all because of

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the hard work by NASA Goddard

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individuals in addition to lockheed

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martin so and then for NASA here at

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Kennedy Space Center our team were

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performed up to the task as usual we

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never expect anything less there there

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an absolutely great team they never

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cease to amaze me and we were all coming

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together the great combined partnership

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that we have and we came right down to

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the t minus four

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terminal count readiness bowl executed

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that nominally came off the pad

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beautifully with the single solid it was

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a great time of day to launch here on

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the East Coast the Sun was was a just

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about a half hour so from setting in the

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West so absolutely gorgeous launch and

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we're really ready to celebrate now with

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a great spacecraft separation will let

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you go do that

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thank you so much Jimmy was an awesome

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day and that it really was a clean

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launch and a beautiful sight and