ASOC Transcript

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hello and welcome back to the goes-t
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virtual social we are very excited it's
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launch day and we're here at the atlas
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space flight operations center where
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people are busy checking out the rocket
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getting ready to issue those go or no go
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commands and i'm here today with someone
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who gets to issue one of the final go or
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no-go
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calls candace carlisle who is the
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let's see goes-t flight program manager
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is that correct i'm the goes-r series
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flight project manager ah so close i was
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so close all right so candace how are
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you feeling today
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excited and terrified and terrified when
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you send your child across the country
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in a cross-country car trip and you're
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excited for them because they're gonna
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have a lot of great experiences but
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you're also a little worried you know
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will they get in any trouble yeah
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so so what is your your job with ghost
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tea in the goes-r program
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the goes goes-r series flight project is
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responsible for the spacecraft and
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instruments so today we have a number of
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engineers that are over in astrotech
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which is where they're monitoring the
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spacecraft from and then we have a few
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people here at the asoc and then we have
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a team of people at the noaa satellite
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operations facility in suitland maryland
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okay so the folks over in astrotech will
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be monitoring the spacecraft the folks
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in the nsoff will be taking over control
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of the spacecraft uh shortly after
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separation and the folks here are in the
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go no goes polls
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and we're essentially in the same
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facility with the atlas folks who are
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looking at the rockets look at the
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rocket so what are you looking for uh
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in with this spacecraft like what are
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you what are you
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you know checking as it as it gets ready
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so the team reports up to me so that
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engineers are looking at their specific
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subsystems and all the telemetry the
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data that they get
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to make sure everything's good they're
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looking at the power uh they're you know
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just looking at everything about the
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spacecraft you know how you have your
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car
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dashboard and all the sensors there
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right a spacecraft's like that too
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except more sensors gotcha
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more sensors and and you know
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less opportunity to pull off the side of
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the road if something goes wrong
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exactly but there are that's why there's
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a go no go yeah so there's several
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places in the countdown where there's
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polling and everybody you know pulls up
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i hear from the nsoft team because
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they're making sure all the networks are
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ready to support and then i hear from
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the spacecraft team so
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several times during the countdown we
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check out to make sure everything's okay
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excellent so are you excited for uh you
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know several a few hours from now
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absolutely absolutely very excited yeah
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what's your favorite part of the launch
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um well it's it's what is exciting about
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the launch to me is the spacecraft
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project manager is when there's
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separation and then when you hear
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you know actually we start hearing from
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the spacecraft through a ground station
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shortly before separation so you know
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that it's separated is okay a few
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minutes later about six minutes after
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separation there's the solar ray stage
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one deployment so in there you know this
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is about a three-hour cruise a little
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over three and a half hour cruise so we
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get you know separation solar array
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deployment uh just before that is
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positive communication power positive
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those are all the things we're looking
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for excellent so once once you're up
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there and everything's turned on and you
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get your first light image like what are
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you looking forward to most about
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having goes up in orbit ghost is
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fantastic the imagery we get from goes
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you see all the time on the weather
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it can keep
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you know we have goes and goes west and
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between them they keep an eye on the
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entire western hemisphere
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this one goes t will become goes 18 that
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will be goes west and so you know we're
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on the east coast but the the weather
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systems have a tendency to move from
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west to east yeah so because goes in
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there all the time in the geostationary
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position
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looking at everything
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it can track the weather systems as they
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move across the country it can move you
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know it can track hurricanes as they're
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developing uh fires it can see fires
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from space when they're first developing
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so it's fantastic what it can do great
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well thanks so much for taking the time
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to talk with us candace and uh
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go goes tea
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and great and now we'll be joined by uh
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scott messer launch alliance he's the
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ula's
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nasa launch services program manager
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as you can tell we're in the asoc and
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things are real busy people are coming
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and going people are getting excited
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taking the time thank you so what um
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what's involved in your role as the as
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the program manager here so my job as
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program manager is to make sure that uh
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when over the last
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two and a half three years as we've
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integrated the ghost spacecraft onto the
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atlas vehicle yeah to ensure that we
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meet all of their requirements and that
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we can guarantee mission success for the
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goes-t spacecraft that's great that's
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great and so
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you know what
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what will you be doing over the next
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several hours before our scheduled 4 38
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p.m take off so uh kind of as candace
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said a little bit of uh worrying yeah
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watching the vehicle the vehicle is
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going through
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all of its last minute checkouts they
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check each and every system to make sure
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it is working right correctly we've got
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an engineering team that evaluates that
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we've got the launch
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operations team that's doing all that
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and so
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upstairs on uh and on the mission
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director center we'll be watching all
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that stuff happen and monitoring to make
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sure that everything is
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ready to go when we get to 4 38 this
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afternoon
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eastern time excellent excellent so how
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many how many of these nasa missions
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have you or like joint nasa other agency
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missions have you worked on
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so uh
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quite a few yeah i counted the other day
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and this uh ghost t will be my 54th
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nasa mission that i've been involved
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with uh over the course of my career
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yeah so that is very exciting for me and
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of course this will be number 149 for uh
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for ula right and uh you know also
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exciting in my mind is the fact that ula
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and our our heritage atlas and delta
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vehicles
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have launched every
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goes mission that's ever been launched
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really so going back to
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1970s 1975 was the was the first launch
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wow of goes and that was on a delta
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vehicle yeah and then this will be our
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22nd launch with the
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in partnership with nasa lsp so geez
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it's been a very exciting that's great
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uh watching and goes quite frankly i i
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have to tell you that of all of the
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missions i've ever launched this is
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probably the smoothest
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really
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integration and preparation that i have
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ever experienced yeah are you knocking
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knocking wood there
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[Laughter]
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yeah it's been really really good so far
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great great and does it ever get old
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like you've done 54 of these now and
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yeah no it does not uh when i see
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candace up here and she's all excited
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when i hear about the the uh
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science that the missions are gonna do
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it just always gets me excited and as we
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get into the countdown and whatnot yeah
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it's just the excitement is there and
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and it's always
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just never gets old excellent excellent
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well scott hey thanks so much for taking
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the time i appreciate it and uh
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go atlas go goes-t and
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we'll see you
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very soon tune in at 4 p.m for the nasa
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live broadcast thanks so much