Steve Agid/Launch Vehicle Telemetry Manager: Delta flight commentary at 64 minutes,
30 seconds into the flight, we've just received word of a positive confirmation of spacecraft
separation. Positive confirmation of spacecraft sep.
George Diller/NASA Launch Commentator: Well, tell us how the countdown went.
It seemed like we did work one, one item there toward the end, but overall your thoughts?
Omar Baez/NASA Launch Manager: Very smooth countdown.
We, we did work an item at the end having to do with data that was a little bit out of family.
Not for during today's test, but apparently we had a shift in a gyro bias that occurred roughly
three weeks ago and it was just being brought up today. But every subsequent test after that
this rate gyro was, was functioning at properly -- was never out of spec -- just a little bit out of
family during this test that occurred three weeks ago. And so that was brought into question.
We quickly came to resolution on that and were able to proceed
and hit the window right at the beginning.
George Diller/NASA Launch Commentator: Well, if we look ahead now, I know that our next
flight that's actually going to leave low-Earth orbit is coming up on May the 20th.
Can you tell us a little bit about where we stand on that one?
Omar Baez/NASA Launch Manager: Well, we're actually going to have one more for
Launch Services Program, one more before that, and that's on May 5. And that is the Space Tracking
and Surveillance System's mission that we're doing for the Missile Defense Agency out
of Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Then we transfer back to Kennedy and, and launch the LRO/LCROSS mission
on the Atlas V on May 20.