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GEORGE DILLER: And here we are in the suit-up room.

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Dex, can we tell who we got there?

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ALAN POINDEXTER: That's the commander, that's Rick Sturckow and

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the pilot, Col. Lee Archambault, getting his boots laced up there. Lee's the

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pilot. He's also one of the space station robotic arm operators. That looks

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like Pat Forrester, the MS1 for the flight. He'll go up, go uphill and do the

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entry on the flight deck sitting behind the pilot. Pat's a retired Army colonel.

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And there's Clay Anderson. Clay's MS5 for the ascent portion of the flight

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and he's going up to the space station to replace Suni Williams, who's

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coming home on this flight. Clay will come home on STS-120 in October.

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Looks like he's excited and ready to go, doesn't it? Clay's one of my

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classmates and became an astronaut with me in 1998. There's Jim Reilly.

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Jim's EV1 for the flight. He'll take part in two of the spacewalks and then be

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the IV coordinator for the third spacewalk. There's Danny Olivas. Danny,

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also from the '98 astronaut class, is the MS3 for the flight. He is on two of

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the spacewalks with Jim Reilly and I know he's excited and ready to go, as

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well. We've been waiting a long time for this. This is Steve Swanson, the

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MS2 for the flight and also one of the spacewalkers, and he's doing his final

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pressurization checks. The suit is a pressurized suit. We want to make sure

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there aren't any leaks in it, and the helmet is an integral part of that. And so

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they close it up and do final pressure checks and also make sure the

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communications gear works while it's pressurized. And here comes the

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crew: Rick Sturckow and Lee Archambault lead the crew out, and there's

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Steve Swanson and Pat Forrester. In the back row is Danny Olivas, Jim

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Reilly and Clay Anderson. George, they'll head out to the pad. It's about a

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30-minute drive. They'll stop and let some of the management personnel off

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here at the Launch Control Center, then continue out to the pad surface. The

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total, total transit time about 30 minutes.

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