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BRUCE BUCKINGHAM: This is Shuttle Launch Control at T-3 hours and holding, and we do see our astronauts as

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they are seated for their, what we traditionally call a breakfast.

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However, it is more of a lunch for them since they've been awake since about 10:45 today.

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And, of course, they are making their second attempt to launch aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.

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The astronauts, of course, are Nicholas Patrick, mission specialist, as well as our pilot, William Oefelein,

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and KSC's own Joan Higginbotham, mission specialist number four, commanded by Mark Polansky,

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making his second trip into space, and Suni Williams, who's going to be making

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her first trip into space and staying a whole lot longer than the rest of these folks are.

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Rounding out the crew, Bob Curbeam and, of course, our astronaut representing the European Space Agency,

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Christer Fuglesang, mission specialist number three. And those two gentlemen on

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the end will be taking the lion's share of the spacewalks on this mission today.

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And we see at the table the STS-116 patch, which depicts the shuttle rising above the Earth, and,

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and the space station, and shows the U.S. and Swedish flags as it trailing,

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trails the shuttle, depicting the international composition of this particular crew.

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