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Mike Curie/STS-131 Launch Commentator:  This is Shuttle Launch Control.

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We are now taking live pictures of 
Discovery's astronauts in the crew quarters 
at the Operations (and)

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Checkout Building as they are getting into their orange launch-and-entry suits and preparing for their trip out to the pad.

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That's pilot Jim Dutton, being assisted with his orange ACES suit, getting the gloves on.

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Mission Specialist 1 Rick Mastracchio, looking at ease, confident and ready to fly today.

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And Clay Anderson, mission specialist 5, a veteran of a long-duration space station flight, getting ready for his mission.

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He'll be one of two spacewalkers along with Rick Mastracchio on STS-131. Mission Specialist 3 Stephanie Wilson.

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She's a veteran of two spaceflights, STS-121 and STS-120. Thumbs-up, she's ready to go.

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And our Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Naoko Yamazaki. A big wave for the cameras and a thumbs-up.

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She's one of three Discovery women astronauts who will be joining a female aboard the International Space Station.

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There's Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger. She's Mission Specialist 2, making her first spaceflight.

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She's a former high school science teacher turned astronaut. And she looks very excited.

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And we see the astronauts for Discovery's STS-131 mission, waving at the camera, excited to be heading toward the elevator.

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That means they'll be on their way out to the launch pad aboard the Astrovan shortly.

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Several management astronauts in trail, 
trailing them.

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Over 100 news media await the arrival of 
Discovery's crew, and here they are.

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(Cheers)

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