 The intravehicular astronaut, or IV crew member, is pilot Ken Cockrell. He may be assisting this morning during some of the portions of this space suit checkout procedure. Cockrell will be orchestrating the spacewalk, choreographing Voss and Guernhard while they're out in the cargo bay from the aft flight deck of Endeavour. Again, this live picture being seen from the airlock of the shuttle Endeavour, showing astronauts Jim Voss with his back toward the camera, and Mike Guernhard conducting a checkout of the extravehicular mobility units or space suits they will wear on Saturday for a six-hour spacewalk that is scheduled to begin about 3 a.m. central time to test new thermal improvements made to those suits, as well as the tools and techniques which are being developed for incorporation into the flight planning for the assembly of the International Space Station. This will be the second shuttle spacewalk of the year to test out this type of activity. Two additional spacewalks are planned on the next flight of Endeavour, STS-72, which is now scheduled for launch in the mid-January timeframe. We're with you in the mid-deck. Mike and I are just down here putting together our tools. He's got a couple of the debris shield handling tools in his hand, and I've got one. He's gonna put those on his suit. I'm putting the other one in our tote sack, this big bag that we have here, where we're gonna put all of our miscellaneous tools that we're carrying out for our evaluations. And I've got a little coffee cup-shaped device here that is a worksite interface that we're also gonna carry out in the bag. So you'll just be seeing us putting a lot of our different tools into the bag, getting them ready for the EVA. And we'll try to pause once in a while and tell you what it is that we're putting in as we get to them. Understand, deck face. This live television picture coming from the mid-deck of the shuttle Endeavour. We found working with our checklist that was put together by our EVA trainer, Matt Nicol, but as extremely easy as cross-reference alphabetically, and here with a configuration drawing has made it really easy for us to find all of our stuff and put it together. Copy. This television from the mid-deck of Endeavour showing payload commander Jim Voss checking out the various tools that he and Mike Gernhardt will use Saturday during their six-hour space walk in Endeavour's cargo bay. This view from the shuttle Endeavour is of a tropical storm, Maryland, which has formed out in the Atlantic, in the Caribbean area. Maryland had been a tropical depression until late yesterday, early this morning, when its winds reached tropical storm strength and it acquired the name Maryland. That view from the shuttle Endeavour of the newest tropical storm in this current hurricane season, the latest name storm is Maryland. This is Mission Control, Houston, as Endeavour is sailing just over the western coast of the South American continent at an altitude of about 216 nautical miles, we are receiving live television from the payload bay cameras on board Endeavour. Oh yeah, I hope y'all were watching on that pass. That was a beautiful one across South America. You know we were. That's good, I wasn't sure if you were still taking it down or not. It was a really nice look at the Amazon River. Much more clear than usual. Yeah, I think that's what I was saying today in just my third flight now. It's the first time I've ever actually seen the river itself, it's always clouds covered. Thank you, kind of noticed that you have fewer clouds all over the world than a typical flight.