BRUCE BUCKINGHAM: This is shuttle Launch Control at T-3 hours and holding, and we do have a live view of our seven astronauts seated
near their crew quarters in the Operations and Checkout Building as they
are preparing to take a last bite to eat, before heading over to the suit-up room to get ready to go out to the launch pad.
Our seven astronauts include the mission specialists and commander and pilot. Mission specialists, of course, are critical to this
flight. They will be conducting the spacewalks and they will be doing the lion's share of the outside work.
They include Nicholas Patrick and Robert Curbeam. We also have Joanie Higginbotham and there in the middle is our commander,
Mark Polansky...Suni Williams, who will be staying onboard the International Space Station, and Christer Fuglesang and Robert Curbeam.