Summary

Description	GEORGE DILLER: This is Atlas launch control at T minus 1 hour, 36 minutes, 23 seconds and counting. We're here with Jim Graf, the MRO project manager from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Jim, first of all, tell us how is MRO doing at this point in the countdown and what are they doing at this point in the countdown? JIM GRAF: Well, MRO is doing great. It's sitting atop the launch vehicle and it's talking to us and it's, everything is normal. All systems are go, and it's just a thoroughbred waiting to break the bonds that are holding it back. Release the reigns, let it get out of 1 G and get into space. DILLER: Any effects from the thunderstorm last night that you were able to tell? GRAF: Well, certainly we were very concerned about the thunderstorm and it came through. But we put in lightning suppression in the circuits and there was no damage whatsoever and the spacecraft is good to go..........DILLER: Couple of instruments here. GRAF: What you're looking at right now is a close-up of
Date	2005-08-11
Source	images.nasa.gov

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