Juno launch post

"It's unusual to get 10,000 people at a planetary launch -- an unmanned launch -- and so I'm just happy for the opportunity to publicize the great science that we're doing," said Jan Chodas, NASA's Juno project manager from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif."Maybe we're getting some of
that because we're riding on the coattails of the excitement and the emotion of the last shuttle launch," Chodas said.