The Atlantis astronauts arrive at Kennedy Space Center today as NASA prepared to pick up a three-day countdown to the planned launch Thursday of the shuttle, its seven-member crew and the European Columbus science lab.
Led by veteran astronaut Steve Frick, the crew includes pilot Alan Poindexter and mission specialists Rex Walheim, Leland Melvin, Stanley Love and two European Space Agency astronauts: Hans Schegel of Germany and Leopold Eyharts of France.
The astronauts held court briefly with the media at NASA's Shuttle Landing Facility. Click the link here to listen in: AstrosArrive.wav. The file will take about a minute to download before it plays.
IMAGE NOTE: Click to enlarge this NASA photo of the STS-122 astronauts talking with reporters after their arrival at Kennedy Space Center today. European astronaut Leopold Eyharts is at the microphone. Standing behind him (from left to right) are mission specialists Stanley Love, Hans Schegel, Rex Walheim, Leland Melvin, pilot Alan Poindexter and mission commander Steve Frick. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett.
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