Allard Beutel/STS-130 Launch Commentator: Right now we take you to the Operations and Checkout Building.
We see the STS-130 commander, George Zamka, getting suited up.
Finished up their weather briefing about five minutes ago and headed over to final suit-up. Endeavour's pilot,
Terry Virts, getting on their orange launch-and-entry suits that are officially
known as advanced crew escape system, ACES, suit.
Of course, they affectionately refer to them as pumpkin suits.
Bob Behnken will be the lead spacewalker for all three spacewalks on the STS-130 mission.
A little more thumbs-up, and then, perhaps because hearing the forecast this time around,
things are a little more A-OK this time than they were last night. Mission Specialist Kay Hire there, getting her helmet adjusted.
Each suit technician from the flight crew equipment office is assigned to each astronaut, one per astronaut.
Nickolas Patrick, almost on a knee there and all smiles. He'll be also on all three
spacewalks on this particular mission, first for him on spacewalks.
And finally, Steve Robinson, veteran space flier of this particular crew, making his fourth flight.
He'll be assisting the spacewalks from inside the space station.
As they pan around and look at the suit-up room in the Operations and Checkout Building.
And there are the six astronauts for Endeavour's STS-130 mission, making their way down the hallway in the crew quarters.
Followed by Jerry Ross, in charge of their, when they're down here at the
Kennedy Space Center -- seven-time flown astronaut himself.
About to say goodbye from the elevator, there we go.
There will be several other people who will be riding along with the astronauts on the
way to the pad, including astronaut Chris Ferguson,
the deputy chief of the Astronaut Office, will be doing the weather reconnaissance flights.
They'll drop him off. And here's Endeavour's STS-130 crew.
(Cheers)
Allard Beutel/STS-130 Launch Commentator: And you can see the head of the Astronaut Office,
Peggy Whitson, along with one of the members of the closeout crew in the white overalls.
In that shot you can see them, there's obviously a lot of media who are there to watch walkout as it's known.
And an awful lot of well-wishers -- employees, friends,
people who are obviously supporting the crews -- want to make sure that the
astronauts know that they are behind them and want to
wish them well before they head out to the launch pad and start their 13-day flight to the
International Space Station. And the departure of the Astrovan, and of course the security escort.