George Diller/STS-127 Commentator: And here come some of our crew members from the mission, STS-127.
That's Roman Polansky, our commander. Bob Cabana, the Kennedy Space Center director,
is there greeting the crew, along with Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for spaceflight,
and Charlie Bolden, our new NASA administrator.
Tim Seymore/Former Recovery & Landing Tech: Yeah, they'll probably spend 10 or 15 minutes walking around.
And I'm sure they'll probably do a press interview, and talk about some of their adventures up there and things they did.
I know they sure did a lot of good work up there this time, that's for sure.
You know, as you see right behind them there, where the main landing gear, the rear tires on the shuttle, the main landing gear.
And I'm sure most of them will take a peek at the tires to see just how much rubber they wore off.
George Diller/STS-127 Commentator: Do they take the brakes off anymore after landing?
Or do they leave those on now all the way until they get to the hangar?
Tim Seymore/Former Recovery & Landing Tech: They leave them on now until we tow back in.
There's one of the NTDs, Steve Payne, there greeting the crew. He was on console on launch day.
George Diller/STS-127 Commentator: Yeah. That's our NASA test director for this flight. There's Charlie Bolden again.
Mark Polansky/STS-127 Commander: We're all here now. OK. It's a great day to be here at the Kennedy Space Center.
What a fantastic mission. We are thrilled to be a part of a team that is able to accomplish missions like this.
So, it's not just astronauts. It's mission control. It's folks for JAXA, for ESA,
for all the international partners who worked so hard to put this mission together.
And what can we say, but thanks to everybody at the Kennedy Space Center for working so hard on Endeavour.
It's a beautiful vehicle and we've enjoyed every minute of it. Hopefully, we've brought it back in good shape.
So, we're going to make this short because we'd actually like to go see our families. So, thank you all very much.
George Diller/STS-127 Commentator: And it looks like they are going to go back in the astronaut transfer van, the Astrovan,
instead of the crew transport vehicle. Same vehicle that they went to the launch pad on. And there they go.
Tim Seymore/Former Recovery & Landing Tech: They're headed to the ONC.
George Diller/STS-127 Commentator: Right.