GEORGE DILLER: Here's our commander, Steve Frick, wishing his family the best.
Leopold Eyharts is a general in the French air force.
Pilot Al Poindexter now in the White Room, recognizing his family before he dons the rest of his gear.
Hans Schlegel, an astronaut for the European Space Agency, from Germany.
And he'll be sitting in the middeck left seat, by the hatch.
M.S. 1 Lee Melvin now preparing to board. This is his first flight.
Mission Specialist Stan Love now being assisted into his suit and this is his first flight, as well.
There's Rex Walheim, who will be sitting in our aft center seat as the flight engineer.
And there we see that the orbiter access hatch for Atlantis is being closed.