Mike Curie/NASA Launch Commentator: This is Shuttle Launch Control at T-3 hours and holding.
And we're receiving live television of the astronauts in the Operations and Checkout Building here at Kennedy Space Center.
Commander Mark Polansky getting suited up. Pilot Doug Hurley being assisted by a technician from flight crew equipment,
putting on his orange launch-and-entry suit. They're officially known as ACESs,
or advanced crew escape system suits, these days.
And Chris Cassidy, sitting up for his live television moment.
There's Tim Kopra, who will be launching aboard Endeavour for a long-duration mission to the International Space Station.
He'll be replacing Koichi Wakata as a space station flight engineer. Mission Specialist 4 Dave Wolf suiting up.
Dave is a veteran of three flights and four previous spacewalks, and will be conducting spacewalks again on this mission.
Mission Specialist 3 Tom Marshburn making his first spaceflight today.
He's been an emergency doctor and NASA flight surgeon, and now an astronaut.
And Canadian Space Agency Mission Specialist Julie Payette. And here comes the crew of space shuttle mission STS-127,
making their way out of along the hallway in the Operations and Checkout Building and
on to the elevator, waving at co-workers and well-wishers.
Here comes Endeavour's crew.
(Cheering)
Mike Curie/NASA Launch Commentator: And the STS-127 flight crew is aboard the
Astrovan and about to make their way out to Launch Pad 39A.
We expect the crew to arrive at the pad in about 25 minutes.