Mike Leinbach/NASA Shuttle Launch Director: Atlantis, launch director.
Scott Altman/STS-125 Commander: Hey! Atlantis ready to copy launch director.
Mike Leinbach/NASA Shuttle Launch Director: OK Scooter, look, it's a great day to go fly.
So, on behalf of the KSC processing and launch team, I'd like to wish you, your crew and the whole Hubble Space
Telescope team a great mission. Good luck, Godspeed and we'll see you back here in about 11 days.
Scott Altman/STS-125 Commander: Well, from the whole crew, Mike,
I just want to say thank you. All I can really think is that at last our launch has come along.
It's been a long time coming. I know it took the work of the entire team across our entire agency to bring us to this point.
Looking back, it's been 50 years since President Kennedy challenged us to do the other thing,
not because it was easy, but because it was hard.
Getting to this point has been challenging, but your team, the whole team, everyone has pulled together.
We're taking a little piece of all of us into space.
And at this point all I've got left to say is, let's launch Atlantis! Thanks so much.
Mike Leinbach/NASA Shuttle Launch Director: Thank you, Scooter. And enjoy the ride, pal.