1 00:00:00,630 --> 00:00:01,630 Thank you Stephanie. 2 00:00:01,630 --> 00:00:06,930 All right Tim, so I know how excited you and your team have been for this long-awaited 3 00:00:09,860 --> 00:00:07,930 day. 4 00:00:09,860 --> 00:00:10,860 Wow. 5 00:00:10,860 --> 00:00:11,860 So we just had spacecraft separation. 6 00:00:11,860 --> 00:00:13,370 I mean it's thrilling. 7 00:00:13,370 --> 00:00:15,610 We've got a spacecraft on its way to Mars. 8 00:00:15,610 --> 00:00:20,519 It's been an incredible day, night, morning. 9 00:00:20,519 --> 00:00:23,640 It's been a long, long evening for us. 10 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:26,119 Been up for a long time. 11 00:00:26,119 --> 00:00:30,210 It was actually an incredibly smooth countdown. 12 00:00:30,210 --> 00:00:37,340 Weather here on the Central California Coast, I know, except for the fog, it was incredible. 13 00:00:37,340 --> 00:00:39,180 Apologize for the visibility. 14 00:00:39,180 --> 00:00:40,760 The low viz of the viewers. 15 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:45,050 But I hear it put on quite a show for sound. 16 00:00:45,050 --> 00:00:46,840 Apparently it did. 17 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:47,840 Yes. 18 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:50,470 But, so all the weather constraints were met. 19 00:00:50,470 --> 00:00:55,160 Even the visibility constraint that got a lot of discussion over the last couple of 20 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:56,160 days. 21 00:00:56,160 --> 00:01:01,050 The range assets here at the 30th Space Wing at Vandenberg Air Force Base performed exceptionally 22 00:01:01,050 --> 00:01:02,050 well. 23 00:01:02,050 --> 00:01:03,500 No problems there. 24 00:01:03,500 --> 00:01:06,420 We woke the spacecraft up about 45 minutes before launch. 25 00:01:06,420 --> 00:01:08,460 It woke up on time. 26 00:01:08,460 --> 00:01:13,369 And it did not have one bit of problem for the spacecraft. 27 00:01:13,369 --> 00:01:15,189 And then the launch vehicle. 28 00:01:15,189 --> 00:01:18,680 The mighty Atlas performed yet again. 29 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:24,350 We had a little bit of discussion early in the countdown about a ground system valve. 30 00:01:24,350 --> 00:01:26,119 We worked through that, no problems. 31 00:01:26,119 --> 00:01:32,039 And then late in the count, we had a few alarms that we needed to spend a little bit of time. 32 00:01:32,039 --> 00:01:33,170 Understood those. 33 00:01:33,170 --> 00:01:35,740 They were not actual real alarms about the rocket. 34 00:01:35,740 --> 00:01:42,630 So, that took us right up to about L-6 minutes or so. 35 00:01:42,630 --> 00:01:48,600 From then on, it was smooth sailing down to T-0, right on time at the opening of the window. 36 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:54,579 The ULA launch team demonstrated once again what an incredible team they are. 37 00:01:54,579 --> 00:02:02,020 And the NASA team, that came alongside ULA, I'm just a small part of that team, and incredibly 38 00:02:02,020 --> 00:02:05,560 proud to work for the Launch Services Program team. 39 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:11,130 And then, certainly our customer, from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, that actually did 40 00:02:11,130 --> 00:02:15,740 all of the hard heavy lifting with the InSight spacecraft. 41 00:02:15,740 --> 00:02:18,010 Lockheed Martin built the spacecraft in Denver. 42 00:02:18,010 --> 00:02:20,450 JPL worked alongside them. 43 00:02:20,450 --> 00:02:25,760 Just on all sights, it's an incredible team and if you saw any of the video of us in the 44 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:31,840 control room celebrating, it's just, it's what a relief to have a mission success with 45 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:34,090 the spacecraft on its way, happy, healthy. 46 00:02:34,090 --> 00:02:38,240 We've acquired the first telemetry signals from Insight already. 47 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:39,720 So we know it's doing well. 48 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:40,720 Great.