Tracy Young/WISE Launch Commentator: Joining me now is
NASA Launch Manager Chuck Dovale.
Chuck Dovale/NASA Launch Director: Hello.
Tracy Young/WISE Launch Commentator: Thanks for joining us and
congratulations on a successful launch.
Chuck Dovale/NASA Launch Director: Thank you very much, feels good.
Tracy Young/WISE Launch Commentator: Well, everything seemed to go very
smoothly with the count, can you just recap that for us?
Chuck Dovale/NASA Launch Director: Sure. The vehicle actually was very quiet
and behaved excellently. The only thing we worried was a rain shower
that was off to the northwest. We didn't want to encounter any rain
once we started loaded liquid oxygen into the first stage.
And luckily that skirted around us, and it wasn't a problem.
And then the next worry was upper level winds,
which always seem to be a factor out here.
It's not unusual to have red balloons from the start of the count.
As it goes toward T0, there's a lot more conservatism because they,
you're further out from launch, and they have to predict how the winds
are going to do over a longer period of time.
As you get closer to launch, you have a shorter period of time
and the predictions are much more accurate.
So everything came in "green" within the last 10 minutes and we hit the mark.
It was a great feeling.
Tracy Young/WISE Launch Commentator: Yeah. Well, thanks for stopping by
this morning and again congratulations to you and the team on a successful launch.
Chuck Dovale/NASA Launch Director: All right. Thank you very much.
Tracy Young/WISE Launch Commentator: This will conclude our live launch
coverage on NASA Television. For more information on NASA's WISE mission,
visit: www.nasa.gov/WISE. From the Mission Director's Center on
Vandenberg Air Force Base at launch plus 61 minutes, this is Delta Launch Control.