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Intro music.

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GEORGE DILLER: This is Pegasus Launch Control at T-1 hour, 8 minutes, 8 seconds and counting. We see the

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L-1011 taxiing now toward the end of runway 30 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, a westerly departure out over the

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Pacific Ocean.  Once at the end of the runway, there will be some further discussion to assure that we are, in fact,

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ready for takeoff and the launch today. And once that occurs, they'll begin their climb out to an altitude of 39,000 feet.

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The Vandenberg Control Tower cleared the L-1011 to begin its taxi to the end of the runway at 4:50 this morning.

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At this time, we are still targeting a 5:04 departure time, but we're waiting to confirm that. Once it does

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depart, it will head out to a location, what is called the drop box, which is about 100 miles west of the Monterey

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peninsula, over the Pacific. That drop box is about 40 miles long by about 10 miles wide. From the time of

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departure from the runway will be 58 minutes until the Pegasus is launched. At the time of the Pegasus deployment,

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the L-1011 is targeted to be at an optimum altitude of 39,800 feet at a speed between 560 and 610 miles per hour.

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Once the Pegasus is deployed, it will drop for five seconds before ignition, which occurs approximately 1,000 feet

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below the aircraft.  At T-1 hour, 6 minutes and counting, this is Pegasus Launch Control.

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