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Launch controller: ROC, report range status.

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Launch controller: Range green.

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Launch commentator: T-minus five, four, three,
two, one.

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Go for main engine start.

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Zero and liftoff.

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This is no ordinary aircraft.

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And on board is no ordinary spacecraft.

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This C-5 Super Galaxy is hauling something
special.

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"It can carry what no other plane can carry
in the Air Force.

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Width, length, weight – you name it, it
can get on that thing.

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This jet can do it like no other jet."

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After two years of construction at Lockheed
Martin in Denver, and a few hours in the air,

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NOAA’s GOES-S has finally made it to Kennedy
Space Center, where the countdown to T-zero

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begins.

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"It’s always exciting to bring a satellite
down to Kennedy Space Center and participate

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in the whole activity of getting a satellite
ready for launch."

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"Getting it out here, rolling it into the
launch processing facility, that is a very

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big deal for us.

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That’s probably the hugest milestones in
any spacecraft program, to ship.

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It’s not easy to transport something like
this across the country."

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"This is where the rubber meets the road.

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This is where all the people that have worked
on this program for a couple years culminates

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in the excitement of getting ready for what
we call “launch fever.”

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"So now, we get to do some of the fun stuff,
like put it on a giant airplane and take it

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to Kennedy Space Center, where we get to prepare
it to go onto an Atlas V launch vehicle, and

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launch."

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It’s the job of NASA’s Launch Services
Program to get GOES-S into orbit and they

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have just a few months to do the final launch
preps and inspections before a T-zero arrives.

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This is no easy task with a spacecraft of
this size and complexity.

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In spaceflight, there are no second chances.

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A successful launch is resting on their shoulders.

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It has to be perfect the first time.

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"It’s very exciting.

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I love being a part of this and I love being
able to contribute to the spacecraft and to

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its success."

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GOES-S is the second part of a weather
satellite upgrade project NOAA is undertaking,

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destined to save lives by modernizing our
weather forecasting ability.

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"We have a very young team and, some of them,
this will be their first campaign.

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So we’re trying to put the excitement into
that, let them feel what it’s like to touch

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the spacecraft for the last time.

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Launch operations is a time we all get together
for one goal, which is launch."