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mhm Yeah ,

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My name is Arlena Moses and I'm a

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launch weather officer with the 45th

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Weather Squadron at Cape Canaveral

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Space Force Station with any launch .

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Uh , you know , whether it's a manned

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or unmanned , our primary mission is to

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ensure the safe flight of the rocket

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into space . It is coming up

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with

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van launches . There is often a little

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bit more things that we have to take

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into account um , to keep the safety of

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the crew . But in terms of actual

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evaluation and what we do both leading

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up to the launch and day of launch ,

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the process is still very similar

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weather is go mm The full name is

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actually the lightning launch commit

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criteria . Um , and they are 10 pretty

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stringent weather safety rules that we

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follow uh , to ensure that when the

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rocket launches there is no threat of

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either natural lightning like from a

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thunderstorm or rocket triggered

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lightning , which is something that can

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also occur . So primarily we are

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looking at what we would call the

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electrification of the cloud an

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atmosphere . To prevent those things .

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It's the entire launch weather team

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working together that we've done our

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part now to ensure that the weather is

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safe for that rocket to launch and to

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bring our crew into space safe .

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Helping put people into space

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is very special and hard to put into

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exact words , what it's like to be a

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part of making sure we can continue to

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get our people safely into space and

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accessing the international Space

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station .

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Yeah .