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[flight director] Okay we're five minutes out from the burn. This is the final go / no-go pool.
[Nancy Neal-Jones] We're sitting in the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission operations center in preperation
for lunar orbit insertion. Now in just a few minutes the control engineers behind
me will begin the burn that will put the spacecraft in postition to be captured by the moon's orbit.
[Cathy Peddie] I can barely contain myself. You know, it's just so exciting. I'm like
nervous, happy, excited, all at the same time and this is the
moment that we've all been waiting for for all these years.
[various operations controllers] ME go.
Systems? Go.
FIDO? Go.
CBH? Go.
Software? Go.
GMNC? Go.
ECS Hardware? Go.
Prop? Go.
Okay, all systems are go.
[Cathy Peddie] The lunar orbit insertion burn is what we
use to help change LRO's velocity so that moon will be able to
"capture" LRO. And once the moon captures LRO then we'll be
able to lower it into its orbit and begin our mission.
[Mike Wargo] It's funny, I was driving in this morning and
it's just so calm and so quiet and so peaceful outside.
And yet in here, the excitement is just palpable.
[Jim Garvin] This is the most important step of the mission right now that we've been dreaming of for the last five years.
So much more to be done at this moon, LRO is our gateway.
[flight director] All stations, this is flight, congratulations on a successful LOI
LRO has returned NASA to the moon.
[cheers and applause]
[Laurie Leshin] We have to take on great challenges as a nation,
and that's one of the things that makes America, it makes us who we are.
In addition, I think missions like LRO are so important because the bring out the best
of our spirit. They bring out the most innovative of us. They allow
us to work in the high-tech areas that really help drive our economy. So there's so many reasons
we should be proud of this mission. Not just scientific, although the scientific stuff is great too.
[Cathy Peddie] Congratulations to all of us on LRO.
We did it, we're at the moon,
you all totally rock.
[cheers]
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