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Mike Curie/NASA Launch Commentator:  This is Shuttle Launch Control at T-3 hours and holding.

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And we're receiving live television of the astronauts in the Operations and Checkout Building here at Kennedy Space Center.

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Commander Mark Polansky getting suited up. Pilot Doug Hurley being assisted by a technician from flight crew equipment,

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putting on his orange launch-and-entry suit. 
They're officially known as ACESs,

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or advanced crew escape system suits, these days.

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And Chris Cassidy, sitting up for his live television moment.

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There's Tim Kopra, who will be launching aboard Endeavour for a long-duration mission to the International Space Station.

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He'll be replacing Koichi Wakata as a space station flight engineer. Mission Specialist 4 Dave Wolf suiting up.

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Dave is a veteran of three flights and four previous spacewalks, and will be conducting spacewalks again on this mission.

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Mission Specialist 3 Tom Marshburn making his first spaceflight today.

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He's been an emergency doctor and NASA flight surgeon, and now an astronaut.

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And Canadian Space Agency Mission Specialist Julie Payette. And here comes the crew of space shuttle mission STS-127,

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making their way out of along the hallway in 
the Operations and Checkout Building and

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on to the elevator, waving at co-workers and well-wishers.

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Here comes Endeavour's crew.

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(Cheering)

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Mike Curie/NASA Launch Commentator:  
And the STS-127 flight crew is aboard the

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Astrovan and about to make their way out to Launch Pad 39A.

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We expect the crew to arrive at the pad in about 25 minutes.

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