GEORGE DILLER: And here we are in the suit-up room.
Dex, can we tell who we got there?
ALAN POINDEXTER: That's the commander, that's Rick Sturckow and
the pilot, Col. Lee Archambault, getting his boots laced up there. Lee's the
pilot. He's also one of the space station robotic arm operators. That looks
like Pat Forrester, the MS1 for the flight. He'll go up, go uphill and do the
entry on the flight deck sitting behind the pilot. Pat's a retired Army colonel.
And there's Clay Anderson. Clay's MS5 for the ascent portion of the flight
and he's going up to the space station to replace Suni Williams, who's
coming home on this flight. Clay will come home on STS-120 in October.
Looks like he's excited and ready to go, doesn't it? Clay's one of my
classmates and became an astronaut with me in 1998. There's Jim Reilly.
Jim's EV1 for the flight. He'll take part in two of the spacewalks and then be
the IV coordinator for the third spacewalk. There's Danny Olivas. Danny,
also from the '98 astronaut class, is the MS3 for the flight. He is on two of
the spacewalks with Jim Reilly and I know he's excited and ready to go, as
well. We've been waiting a long time for this. This is Steve Swanson, the
MS2 for the flight and also one of the spacewalkers, and he's doing his final
pressurization checks. The suit is a pressurized suit. We want to make sure
there aren't any leaks in it, and the helmet is an integral part of that. And so
they close it up and do final pressure checks and also make sure the
communications gear works while it's pressurized. And here comes the
crew: Rick Sturckow and Lee Archambault lead the crew out, and there's
Steve Swanson and Pat Forrester. In the back row is Danny Olivas, Jim
Reilly and Clay Anderson. George, they'll head out to the pad. It's about a
30-minute drive. They'll stop and let some of the management personnel off
here at the Launch Control Center, then continue out to the pad surface. The
total, total transit time about 30 minutes.