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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

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near their crew quarters in the Operations and Checkout Building as they

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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.

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Our seven astronauts include the mission specialists and commander and pilot. Mission specialists, of course, are critical to this

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flight. They will be conducting the spacewalks and they will be doing the lion's share of the outside work.

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They include Nicholas Patrick and Robert Curbeam. We also have Joanie Higginbotham and there in the middle is our commander,

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Mark Polansky...Suni Williams, who will be staying onboard the International Space Station, and Christer Fuglesang and Robert Curbeam.

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