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[flight director] Okay we're five minutes out from the burn.  This is the final go / no-go pool.

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[Nancy Neal-Jones] We're sitting in the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission operations center in preperation

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for lunar orbit insertion. Now in just a few minutes the control engineers behind

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me will begin the burn that will put the spacecraft in postition to be captured by the moon's orbit.

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[Cathy Peddie]  I can barely contain myself.  You know, it's just so exciting. I'm like

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nervous, happy, excited, all at the same time and this is the

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moment that we've all been waiting for for all these years.

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[various operations controllers] ME go.

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Systems?   Go.

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FIDO?    Go.

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CBH?   Go.

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Software?    Go.

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GMNC?     Go.

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ECS Hardware?     Go.

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Prop?      Go.

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Okay, all systems are go.

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[Cathy Peddie]  The lunar orbit insertion burn is what we

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use to help change LRO's velocity so that moon will be able to

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"capture" LRO.  And once the moon captures LRO then we'll be

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able to lower it into its orbit and begin our mission.

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[Mike Wargo]  It's funny, I was driving in this morning and

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it's just so calm and so quiet and so peaceful outside.

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And yet in here, the excitement is just palpable.

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[Jim Garvin]  This is the most important step of the mission right now that we've been dreaming of for the last five years.

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So much more to be done at this moon, LRO is our gateway.

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[flight director]  All stations, this is flight, congratulations on a successful LOI

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LRO has returned NASA to the moon.

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[cheers and applause]

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[cheers and applause]

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[Laurie Leshin]  We have to take on great challenges as a nation,

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and that's one of the things that makes America, it makes us who we are.

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In addition, I think missions like LRO are so important because the bring out the best

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of our spirit.  They bring out the most innovative of us.  They allow

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 us to work in the high-tech areas that really help drive our economy.  So there's so many reasons

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we should be proud of this mission.  Not just scientific, although the scientific stuff is great too.

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[Cathy Peddie]  Congratulations to all of us on LRO.

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We did it, we're at the moon,

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you all totally rock.

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[cheers]

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