KSC-05-S-00280
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Now here live to talk about launch day and all the preparations leading up to it is MRO Launch Director Chuck Dovale. Thanks for taking time to be with us, Chuck. Thank you, it's great to be here, Tiffany. Launching any rocket is an extremely complex process. Since this is NASA's first launch aboard the Atlas V, were the launch preparations very different? They were quite different for us. As you mentioned, this is the first Atlas V for NASA, as well as the government. Our last Atlas launch was an Atlas II several years ago. So, this being our first Atlas V, there was a lot of work going into familiarizing ourselves with the new launch vehicle, the new complex, and what it would take to launch it. We had to certify the launch vehicle for the first government usage, and that took almost a year and greater than 120 folks to perform that. One very visible task that you'll notice different from an Atlas II is that the launch vehicle is stacked in the Vertical Integration Facility and t
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