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George Diller/NASA Launch Commentator: This is Shuttle Launch Control, T-3 hours and holding.

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And we are at the astronaut quarters in the crew suit-up room where we see our commander,

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Scott Altman, being fitted with his helmet. And our pilot, Greg Johnson, also going through the same activities,

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and some verifications of the pressurized launch-and-entry suits and being assisted with his gloves.

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And Mission Specialist Michael Good, there with Steve Lindsey, our chief of the astronaut here at KSC.

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Drew Feustel. All of these crew members suiting up and looking forward to some very lengthy EVAs

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on this flight -- 6 1/2 hours on average.

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Going across the room now. And that is John Grunsfeld, and he is suited up with his helmet, ready to go.

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And we're coming over now to our mission specialist, Mike Massimino, awaiting his helmet fit-check.

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And down on the end here is our mission specialist, Megan McArthur. This is Shuttle Launch Control at

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T-2 hours, 56 minutes, 30 seconds. And we see the STS-125 Atlantis astronauts now are walking down the hallway,

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led by our commander and pilot.

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Here we see astronaut Steve Lindsey, who will be flying weather reconnaissance today.

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Jerry Ross, who operates, runs the Astronaut Office here at KSC.

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They are starting down the elevator to the astronaut transfer van.

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And here are the astronauts now walking out of the astronaut quarters, boarding the astronaut van.

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Employees from Kennedy Space Center, along with the media, waiting there to wish them well as they board the Astrovan.

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And the astronaut van will stop very briefly to let off astronaut Steve Lindsey and Jerry Ross,

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who will be going out to the Shuttle Landing Facility. And then continuing on out to Launch Pad 39A,

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about three miles from the Vehicle Assembly Building and Launch Control Center.

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