NASA COMMENTATOR GEORGE DILLER: We're in the suitup room now.
Maybe you can tell us who the crew members are we're seeing, and what they're doing.
NASA ASTRONAUT JEFF WILLIAMS: Well, let's see, who do we have here?
It looks like Dom Gorie's coming up here, and of course he's the commander of the mission on his fourth flight.
And this is, you can call it almost routine for Dom, going through this.
This is a significant milestone in the process, of course, especially for the first-time fliers.
Actually getting in the suits for the final time.
Here we have Greg Johnson, the pilot, and they know they're going to get in
these suits and they'll do pressure checks, take the helmets and gloves back off,
but then stay in the suits until they take the trip out to the launch pad to strap in.
And they don't take them off now until they're in orbit.
Garrett Reisman here, this is his first flight. And that's a cue that I gave him to wave. Not really.
But he's going to go and stay on the space station and join
the expedition 16 crew, and Leo Eyharts will return in his seat.
Let's see, I can't tell who we have here with that visor down. I can't read it. Ah, there we go.
Bob Behnken, first-time flier, so he's ready to go too. Air Force officer, Air Force major.
And Jerry Ross there, veteran astronaut in the blue suit,
he leads up our VITT team, which does a great job getting us ready.
Here's Takao Doi from the Japanese Space Agency, his second flight,
he flew on an earlier shuttle flight back in the 1990s, late 1990s.
Of course it's significant for him in that they're taking up the first elements of the
Japanese portion of the space station. Rick Linnehan here, it's his fourth flight.
His last flight was to Hubble, so this is his introduction to space station,
and he's the lead spacewalker on the crew. And finally we've got Mike Foreman here, Navy captain,
test pilot, this is his first flight as well, and he's one of the spacewalkers.
And I know I just talked to him a little while ago, and he's really looking forward to this, waited a long time.
And let's go ahead and watch the crew come out here now.
DILLER: And they're on, what floor are the astronaut quarters on there? Third floor?
WILLIAMS: Yeah, they're on the third floor. Coming out of the suit room, just off to the right there,
it goes down to the dining room and some of the other facilities, computer room.
So they're getting on the elevator here on the third floor and they're going to go down to the first floor.
(Cheering)
COMMANDER DOMINIC GORIE: You guys ready? All right, here we go!