KSC-05-S-00145
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| Description | NOAA-N: Launch Status Briefing - Tiffany Nail: NOAA-N will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at about 3:30 a.m. Pacific time on May 11th. But dozens of engineers and staff at Kennedy Space Center in Florida have played a huge part in preparing NOAA-N for launch. Next, we'd like you to meet Omar Baez, NASA's launch manager for this mission. Thanks for joining our webcast today, Omar. Omar Baez: Thank you, Tiffany. It is a pleasure being here, getting ready for this NOAA-N launch tomorrow. And I'd like to take a moment and talk to you about the preparations that went into work to get this mission ready. We've flown this mission, this type of satellite -- identical ones on Titan II rockets the last three times, the K, L and M series of the satellite. And we've come to run out of Titan II's and we're now flying them on a commercial Delta II 7300 rocket booster. And so a regular type mission that would be a plain Jane repeat mission all of a sudden got difficult for us. An |
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| Date | 2005-05-24 |
| Source | images.nasa.gov |