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Allard Beutel/STS-130 Launch 
Commentator: Right now we take you to the 
Operations and Checkout Building.

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We see the STS-130 commander, George Zamka, getting suited up.

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Finished up their weather briefing about five minutes ago and headed over to final suit-up. Endeavour's pilot,

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Terry Virts, getting on their orange 
launch-and-entry suits that are officially

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known as advanced crew escape system, ACES, suit.

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Of course, they affectionately refer to them as pumpkin suits.

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Bob Behnken will be the lead spacewalker for all three spacewalks on the STS-130 mission.

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A little more thumbs-up, and then, perhaps because hearing the forecast this time around,

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things are a little more A-OK this time than they were last night. Mission Specialist Kay Hire there, getting her helmet adjusted.

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Each suit technician from the flight crew equipment office is assigned to each astronaut, one per astronaut.

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Nickolas Patrick, almost on a knee there and all smiles. He'll be also on all three

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spacewalks on this particular mission, first for him on spacewalks.

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And finally, Steve Robinson, veteran space flier of this particular crew, making his fourth flight.

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He'll be assisting the spacewalks from inside the space station.

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As they pan around and look at the suit-up room in the Operations and Checkout Building.

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And there are the six astronauts for Endeavour's STS-130 mission, making their way down the hallway in the crew quarters.

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Followed by Jerry Ross, in charge of their, 
when they're down here at the

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Kennedy Space Center -- seven-time flown astronaut himself.

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About to say goodbye from the elevator, there we go.

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There will be several other people who will 
be riding along with the astronauts on the

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way to the pad, including astronaut Chris Ferguson,

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the deputy chief of the Astronaut Office, will 
be doing the weather reconnaissance flights.

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They'll drop him off. And here's Endeavour's STS-130 crew.

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(Cheers)

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Allard Beutel/STS-130 Launch Commentator: And you can see the head of the Astronaut Office,

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Peggy Whitson, along with one of the members of the closeout crew in the white overalls.

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In that shot you can see them, there's obviously a lot of media who are there to watch walkout as it's known.

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And an awful lot of well-wishers -- employees, friends,

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people who are obviously supporting the 
crews -- want to make sure that the

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astronauts know that they are behind them and want to

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wish them well before they head out to the 
launch pad and start their 13-day flight to the

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International Space Station. And the departure of the Astrovan, and of course the security escort.

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