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thank you

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so

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it's a long and it's a busy mission

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certainly is all folks uh in mission

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control and that will work the mission

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uh and it's a great relief to have it uh

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complete and successful and have the

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columbus module uh up there at working

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on the station

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and for us all to be back home safe if

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you guys are out there thanks so much

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you guys did a phenomenal job and

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we hope we didn't disappoint you as well

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i see a lot of friends and family and

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folks from our office out there thank

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you so much for all your advice

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dex and i and stan have been waiting ten

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years for this

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and it's uh one of the most amazing

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experiences i've ever had

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and i look out in the crowd and see the

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people that have supported us all the

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way you know we've had tough times we've

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had good times we've had bad times

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and every one of you out there have

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pulled together and helped us

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get to this point of our lives you know

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this mission complete mission success

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and that's what it's all about a team

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it's great to be back and uh it was uh

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it was a great mission it was very

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challenging we had three challenging

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spacewalks but fortunately we had the

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best team in the business to get us

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ready for it

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and to execute it and they're standing

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it really feels great to be back home

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away from home

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me as a

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german european uh european german uh

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texan american

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texan

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well

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let's focus on the important things

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there are only two

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really too and it might be obvious to

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you but i think it doesn't it hasn't

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been said enough

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from the bottom of my heart i really do

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want to thank

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the crew

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i would want to thank my colleagues for

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their skill their dedication

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their patience

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their effort

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to make our mission successful

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as a first time flyer i'd like to report

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to everybody that eight kilometers per

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you look out the window oh there's

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hawaii i used to live there get out the

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i just want to thank i was thinking

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today that the great thing about being

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what we call a shrek a shuttle rotated

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expedition crew member is that in the

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four months um i had the honor and

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privilege to call 16 different people

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crewmates and uh it's that's really uh

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it's cool because every single one of

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them is

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uh great and uh fun to be with and and

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if we bond that we've created a special

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bond being in space together and uh i

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trained mostly with the 120 crew but

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when i crossed the hatch and came over

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into the mid deck with the 122 crew uh

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we had that bond and we had a ton of fun

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and uh they made me feel

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uh like we've been trained together for

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the whole time

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and uh i'll have great memories of my

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time at the win2 cruise so even though

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we didn't spend a lot of time training

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i felt a bond right away so i thank

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carlos

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a fantastic job picking up the

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performance module and i wanted to thank

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them until congratulations

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and i'm glad that dan made it back well

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i was talking to rex walheim first and

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he made us very proud operating the

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spacesuit and becoming a very

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in-depth knowledge of how that suit's

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going to keep you alive is not an easy

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task and his many hours of work on the

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ground made us very proud he operated

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the suit flawlessly and executed the

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evas to what we need to assemble station