STS-122 Launch Director Doug Lyons (R)greets Atlantis astronauts Pilot Alan Poindexter as Commander Steve Frick, Mission Specialists Leland Melvin, Rex Walheim, Hans Schlegel of the European Space Agency and Stanley Love follow after they arrived at Kennedy's Shuttle Landing Facility and disembarked from a Gulfstream jet on November 30, 2007. For three busy days the crew participated in launch training exercises. The STS-122 mission launch is scheduled for December 6. (UPI Photo/George Shelton/NASA)