Suiting Up and for Space

[Inside KSC News Feeds]

Endeavour's crew members ate their traditional launch-day meal in Kennedy's Operations and Checkout Building crew quarters. Then, they put on their customized orange spaceflight suits. The suits contain an oxygen supply, communications equipment and a temperature control system that protect the astronauts during liftoff pressure changes and in the unlikely event of an emergency. After they suit up, the astronauts will leave their crew quarters and head toward a vehicle waiting to take them to Launch Pad 39A. The crew is scheduled to depart for the launch pad at about 4:05 p.m.

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