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This is Atlas Launch Control. We are now 2 hours 32 minutes, 32 seconds away from the liftoff of the Juno spacecraft aboard an Atlas V rocket.

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Liftoff is from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral. 

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The forecast is essentially unchanged from what we've been watching all week. There is just a 30% chance of not meeting the launch weather criteria. 

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It takes everything we know to get off this planet. 

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So, while everything that NASA does and building the Juno spacecraft and exploring Jupiter is all high tech, 

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I think a rocket launch represents the extreme of that edge. 

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The energy in the room on launch day is stressful, but in a good way, it's_it's a good feeling, it's_it's almost electric, 

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everybody's excited and nervous and I've seen people before, you know, biting their nails.

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(Background Voices/Pre-Countdown)

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A rocket launch is one of the most amazing things to see. I mean, it's truly a cosmic event. 

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...Safety officer, go. Range weather and final clear to launch, go. LC LD channel 1, go ahead. LC, you have permission to launch. Roger. 

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A launch is probably our single biggest risk in the entire mission. 

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T minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Ignition and liftoff of the Atlas V with Juno on a trek to Jupiter. 

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A planetary piece of the puzzle from the beginning of our solar system.

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When you see it, the first thing that you're impressed with is just the amount of energy, you feel it because the ground is shaking 

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and you're miles away and the waves are going through the ground like an earthquake would.

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You're canceling gravity. Gravity is pulling you down, you've got to get to a certain speed and then that's the escape velocity to leave the earth. 

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Max queue, boosters throttling up, right on schedule, our general response looks good. 

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You're watching something going from one planet to another. 

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And we have solids 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 jettison. Visual indication that all solids have separated well. 

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Current altitude is 45.8 miles, in altitude down range distance 69 miles, velocity 5,413 miles per hour. 

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And we have payload fairing jettison and CFR jettison. 

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We have retros and have spacecraft separation. This concludes the post count commentary for the AV 29 Juno mission.