KSC-05-S-00238
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GEORGE DILLER: This is Atlas launch control at T minus 50 minutes and counting, with a single 10-minute, built-in hold remaining. That means we are exactly one hour from the launch of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on a Lockheed Martin Atlas V rocket from Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral. At this point, liquid oxygen on the Atlas stage 77 percent full, we're at flight level on the Centaur, and preparing for the loading of the liquid hydrogen onto the Centaur very shortly. We're joined now by Tammy Harrington, the mission integration manager for NASA at the Kennedy Space Center who's been busy working the integrated operations on the MRO spacecraft and the Atlas V for quite some time. Tammy, welcome, and about when did Kennedy Space Center actually start preparing for this launch? TAMMY HARRINGTON: Actually, the Launch Services Program began working with the MRO project about four and a half years ago, and it began with the exercise to actually buy the launch vehicle and select launch v
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- Category: Space
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