ALAN POINDEXTER: There's a view from the White Room, George, with
Rick getting his harness on. CJ's a Marine colonel and this is his third flight,
and I can tell you he's a great guy to work for. He was, I worked for him for
a number of years down here at Kennedy and... So, Mike's going to help CJ
into his seat. So this view is in the commander's-side window, George,
looking across the flight deck, and here we see CJ laying on his back
looking, he's looking forward through the forward windows.
GEORGE DILLER: You said the next astronaut on after the pilot will be
somebody going onto the middeck?
POINDEXTER: That's right. Here's Jim Reilly, he'll be going in next and
we'll stagger it, flight deck, middeck, until we're complete with the ingress.
So Jim will be taking his seat on the middeck here in just a moment. So now
Jim's taking his seat and Mike Thompson will help him get strapped in, as
well. There's Lee Archambault, he's an Air Force colonel and he, this is
Lee's first flight. He'll be taking his seat in the right side of the flight deck.
He's responsible for most of the orbiter systems' ascent and entry, as well as,
I think I'd said earlier, he's going to be operating the space station robotic
arm for the S3/S4 attachment onto the truss segment there. Looks like Danny
Olivas is in the White Room there, getting his harness on. And George, this
view is another camera that, on the flight deck, it's been moved over to the
pilot side now and we can see Lee Archambault getting into his seat. There's
Clay Anderson in the White Room looking really happy. Clay is going to
space for a number of months. He won't return until October. He's got to get
to space station and take Suni's place, and then he's got a spacewalk in mid
July that I'm sure he's looking forward to. George, this is another flight deck
view that we've got. Mike's moved the camera now to the forward glare
shield, so we're looking aft now on the flight deck toward the aft windows
that Mike's going to stand on there. So, for orientation purposes, that's where
we are, and you can see Pat Forrester there, climbing through the interdeck
access, across the MS2 seat, and he'll take his place behind, behind "Brew"
in the MS1 seat. And there's Steve Swanson, he's the last crewmember to
enter today, so we've got all seven onboard. And "Swani's" now in the MS2
seat. You can see the camera looking down at him right now. Steve is the
MS2, or flight engineer, and he'll be assisting CJ and "Brew" with the
nominal procedures during ascent and also on entry.