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Mike Curie/STS-133 Launch Commentator: We're seeing Commander Steve Lindsey with one of the suit technicians
assisting him into his ACEs suit, or his Launch and Entry Suit.
Pilot Eric Boe. He flew on STS-126. He is our pilot today. He's logged over 4,000 hours in 45 different aircraft.
This is Alvin Drew, Mission Specialist 1. He's a colonel in the Air Force.
Once again we have an all-veteran crew. Alvin Drew flew on STS-118.
Panning around to the other side of the room.
Mike Barrett. Mission Specialist No. 3. He's a veteran of Expeditions 19 and 20 aboard the International Space Station.
Kennedy Space Center native Nicole Stott who worked here processing shuttles for many years before becoming an astronaut.
She's Mission Specialist 4. Hometown of Clearwater, Florida.
And the newest member of the STS-133 Crew Steve Bowen, who replaced Tim Kopra
after the unfortunate bicycle accident sidelined Tim Kopra.
Steve is Mission Specialist 2.
And here comes the crew of space shuttle Discovery. The STS-133 Crew is walking out of their Crew Quarters in the
Operations and Checkout Building followed by some of the astronaut management.
Andy Thomas, NASA Astronaut: And here we have the crew walking out of Crew Quarters. This is a very historical walkway.
It's the same path that the Apollo astronauts took to the moon. And over the last 30 years there's been 133-odd
shuttle crews that walked out here to catch this bus for the exciting ride out to the launch pad.
I think that's the camera view from the VAB (Vehicle Assembly Building) if I'm not mistaken.