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NASA COMMENTATOR GEORGE DILLER: We're in the suitup room now.

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Maybe you can tell us who the crew members are we're seeing, and what they're doing.

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NASA ASTRONAUT JEFF WILLIAMS: Well, let's see, who do we have here?

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It looks like Dom Gorie's coming up here, and of course he's the commander of the mission on his fourth flight.

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And this is, you can call it almost routine for Dom, going through this.

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This is a significant milestone in the process, of course, especially for the first-time fliers.

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Actually getting in the suits for the final time.

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Here we have Greg Johnson, the pilot, and they know they're going to get in

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these suits and they'll do pressure checks, take the helmets and gloves back off,

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but then stay in the suits until they take the trip out to the launch pad to strap in.

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And they don't take them off now until they're in orbit.

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Garrett Reisman here, this is his first flight. And that's a cue that I gave him to wave. Not really.

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But he's going to go and stay on the space station and join

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the expedition 16 crew, and Leo Eyharts will return in his seat.

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Let's see, I can't tell who we have here with that visor down. I can't read it. Ah, there we go.

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Bob Behnken, first-time flier, so he's ready to go too. Air Force officer, Air Force major.

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And Jerry Ross there, veteran astronaut in the blue suit,

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he leads up our VITT team, which does a great job getting us ready.

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Here's Takao Doi from the Japanese Space Agency, his second flight,

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he flew on an earlier shuttle flight back in the 1990s, late 1990s.

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Of course it's significant for him in that they're taking up the first elements of the

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Japanese portion of the space station. Rick Linnehan here, it's his fourth flight.

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His last flight was to Hubble, so this is his introduction to space station,

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and he's the lead spacewalker on the crew. And finally we've got Mike Foreman here, Navy captain,

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test pilot, this is his first flight as well, and he's one of the spacewalkers.

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And I know I just talked to him a little while ago, and he's really looking forward to this, waited a long time.

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And let's go ahead and watch the crew come out here now.

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DILLER: And they're on, what floor are the astronaut quarters on there? Third floor?

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WILLIAMS: Yeah, they're on the third floor. Coming out of the suit room, just off to the right there,

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it goes down to the dining room and some of the other facilities, computer room.

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So they're getting on the elevator here on the third floor and they're going to go down to the first floor.

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(Cheering)

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COMMANDER DOMINIC GORIE: You guys ready? All right, here we go!

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