George Diller/NASA Launch Commentator: This is Shuttle Launch Control, T-3 hours and holding.
And we are at the astronaut quarters in the crew suit-up room where we see our commander,
Scott Altman, being fitted with his helmet. And our pilot, Greg Johnson, also going through the same activities,
and some verifications of the pressurized launch-and-entry suits and being assisted with his gloves.
And Mission Specialist Michael Good, there with Steve Lindsey, our chief of the astronaut here at KSC.
Drew Feustel. All of these crew members suiting up and looking forward to some very lengthy EVAs
on this flight -- 6 1/2 hours on average.
Going across the room now. And that is John Grunsfeld, and he is suited up with his helmet, ready to go.
And we're coming over now to our mission specialist, Mike Massimino, awaiting his helmet fit-check.
And down on the end here is our mission specialist, Megan McArthur. This is Shuttle Launch Control at
T-2 hours, 56 minutes, 30 seconds. And we see the STS-125 Atlantis astronauts now are walking down the hallway,
led by our commander and pilot.
Here we see astronaut Steve Lindsey, who will be flying weather reconnaissance today.
Jerry Ross, who operates, runs the Astronaut Office here at KSC.
They are starting down the elevator to the astronaut transfer van.
And here are the astronauts now walking out of the astronaut quarters, boarding the astronaut van.
Employees from Kennedy Space Center, along with the media, waiting there to wish them well as they board the Astrovan.
And the astronaut van will stop very briefly to let off astronaut Steve Lindsey and Jerry Ross,
who will be going out to the Shuttle Landing Facility. And then continuing on out to Launch Pad 39A,
about three miles from the Vehicle Assembly Building and Launch Control Center.