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Six people make up the White Room Closeout Crew that are assisting the astronauts.

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This is Mission Specialist 5, Charlie Camarda.

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He willl sit in seat 7, that's the mid-deck flight seat.

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We're being joined now here in firing room 3 by Astronaut Alan Poindexter. He's currently serving the Astronaut Office Shuttle Operations branch

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and performing duties as a lead support Astronaut at Kennedy Space Center and he's assigned to STS-120.

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Alan, welcome.
Good morning George. Glad to be here.
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All the crew is making progress in their, in their boarding and how would you sort of sum up what the Astronauts are doing right now

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as they've gotten in or getting prepared to launch and what will they be doing that's coming up?

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They're going through all of their personal equipment checks

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and getting strapped in and getting their parachute hooked up

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and then they will start a series of communication checks and 
I believe we heard some of the crew members already checked in with those.

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