 Oh my gosh. All right, we are just around the corner right now. I just got like a little glimpse of the launch pad. I can see it right here in front of me. Oh, wow. It's right there. Oh my goodness. All right, we are literally like maybe 300 feet away from the Lucy spacecraft on the LS5 rocket. From what I understand, I think we're going to be actually taking an elevator up to the top of this launch or the VIF, the vertical integration facility, to see Lucy up close. And we are some of the last people to be seeing Lucy before she blasts off into space. It's a long mission ahead. And yeah, super, super thrilled to share this moment with you and take you along for the ride. How's it going? So nice to meet you. It's going good, good to be with you as well. Thanks so much for taking us around. This is incredible. This is insane. Oh my gosh. I mean, isn't that just, that's cool. I mean, this rocket is massive. Yeah, the scale of it. I mean, I eat 200 feet tall. I'm joined today by Isaac and Danya and we're standing directly in front of the Lucy spacecraft atop an LS5 rocket. We were just talking on the way up about the scale of this thing. It's really pretty impressive to just take a step back and appreciate the sheer magnitude and the scale of this rocket. So can you tell us a bit more about the dimensions of this thing and kind of what is all powering Lucy on its journey out to the Trojans? Yeah, so Lucy's actually right now sitting on our 401 Atlas V configuration, fully stacked to the top of the payload bearing. It's about 190 feet tall. So we have the entire vehicle right now sitting on our mobile launch platform, 1.3 million pounds steel structure. We have our Atlas booster, our single engine Centaur and then the Lucy spacecraft on top of that. And the Lucy spacecraft, it's not a small spacecraft itself. It's pretty large as well right now. No, it's not a small spacecraft. It's about the size of a standard car. It weighs 3,300 pounds and half of that is the fuel. And so, I wanna talk a little bit about the solar rays. Yeah, that's what I was interested in. So with the solar rays stowed, they're about four inches thick. But when they're deployed, they're 7.2 meters in diameter. So if you were to take the spacecraft as the solar rays deployed and tip it on its side, it'd be as tall as a four story building. And why do the solar panels need to be that massive? They're specifically designed for this mission for this exact reason, so. Yes, so Lucy is going to travel four billion miles through its journey, its 12 years journey. And it's traveling far from the sun. As a matter of fact, it's gonna be the farthest spacecraft traveling on solar power. And so that's why we need massive solar rays. And so, I mean, it's a long journey ahead, 12 year long mission. But there's already been quite a journey on the back end here just to get us prepared. Can you walk us through, I guess, the past like 14 months during the pandemic here? Well, how's it been? Why exciting? So we actually started spacecraft integration and testing in July of 2020. Think about it, 14 months to fully integrate the spacecraft and the payload, the instrument during a pandemic, testing it through an entire environmental test campaign which simulates space, which gives us confidence that it's gonna survive the full mission. That's amazing. Yeah, and then also just the journey to get the spacecraft from all its individual parts assembled on the C17 that you get to ride with. And then to here, I mean, what's been the process like on the ground in KSC? So once we landed, we had about seven weeks in which we reintegrated hardware like the high gain antenna and updated flight software and did functional testing to verify that we didn't break anything during shipment. That's important. And then we fueled the spacecraft and did our final on-pad functional and the spacecraft is currently powered up and we're monitoring it state of health 24-7 launch. And then what is it gonna be like the day of the launch as well, kind of getting the spacecraft ready really long before sunrise even to get it ready to... Yeah, so our crew will actually be coming in 10 o'clock the night before for our, yes, exactly. For our pre-launch securing. So we'll go through all of the final closeouts at the pad, our final pad preps pulling the cover over the flame bucket where the exhaust will go for launch, doing all our final preps and then clearing the pad at roughly 2.30 in the morning so we can go into cryogenic tanking. And then at lift off of 860,000 pounds of thrust at sea level will take Lucy on its journey. And then we're on our way. I mean, it's a 12 year long journey and we were just talking about this on the way up. It's super exciting, obviously a long mission ahead. A lot of really cool discoveries waiting for us out there. But at the same time, I mean a little bit of sadness here because this is the last time that we're gonna be this close. Humans are gonna be this close to Lucy spacecraft. It is. I mean as the project manager, right. My 10 year old Lucy is gonna be ending soon. So it is a little sad. But it's also exciting. It's exciting and I will be waiting with baited breath as we encounter those Trojans. I know what we think we're gonna find but I'm excited for the new discoveries, the unexpected. That's what I'm looking forward to. And we'll be following this mission and waiting for it to rewrite our science books. And obviously not your first rodeo. You've sent many missions up to space. What, I mean keeps it exciting. What keeps you coming back every single time to launch another mission up on the Atlas V? It's something where you'd think it would get routine and benign and it's just every mission, every launch, that final countdown. If you're not getting butterflies then you're in the wrong business. I mean the view alone up here just checking it out before. I mean, it's exciting. Kind of just taking it all on and just. Enjoy what you see and take pride in all the hard work that folks, everyone have done to contribute to the success of this mission. It takes thousands and thousands of people to get us to where we are today from all the different teams, all the different organizations. And on top of that it's something that beyond those that directly contributed it's something, a mission as special as this that really everyone is able to share a part of and everyone's able to follow for its entire journey. So it's something where even people at home can experience the launch, experience the mission and follow along with it. It's really special. Wishing you guys the best of luck and I want to thank both of you for taking some time out of your incredibly busy schedules here. And we're just minutes, hours I guess away over the next couple of days here from Lucy blasting off away from us. So thank you both. Congratulations on all that's happened so far and best of luck over the next 12 years on this long journey. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Thank you and appreciate it.