and Atlantis Houston good morning or
good evening Houston time we have you
handed down through oak hanger and just
in case we can't talk to you a little
bit later you do have a go from Houston
and Moscow for the maneuver the Geo 5.3
maneuver at 1835 okay very good bill
basis good evening to all of you there
in Houston and thanks for the wakeup
music is real appropriate because we had
the Russians in our ward room last night
Saturday night and a little barbecue a
little max Q okay you should see a
sheriff on leading us into bill through
the docking module you folks put on and
betingelser this compositor made of
Tyler Crowe which makes it very
convenient so one place Emil was hard to
lose things when you lose stuff in there
it's real difficult to find that these
ventilator tube that you see all around
Shannon all have fans in them and you
can find some things on the intakes for
them that's real helpful Jenna's going
to stop here in just a minute after
passing the narrowest part of mere here
in crystal to service a plant growth
experiment called svet which means
flowers that that is weak plants and
it's just in the last week had some new
growth on the other beautiful plants and
it's just fantastic to see them growing
into the sunlight up here and say we're
all nice refreshing green color to have
aboard the outpost up here and that will
continue on through cristal going
towards the note the central node which
is what makes all of this possible is
fantastic piece of gear that allows
I modules to be docked to the various
ports on it and that's what made the
construction of Mir station possible
here we are getting into the dome you
can see all of the hatches and docking
adapters so forth right Ian they note
itself it's a kind of a busy place we
can look all around the node Shannon's
gone they got forget the bed for her
exercise period looking into our they
rewrote a module coming here is a
greenhouse experiment which John will be
spending a great deal of time on you can
see an Excel wrong so wrong about it on
the bottom of the greenhouse experiment
here as we rotate today that the
designers that would be the proper
attitude use a French vestibular
experiment to lose it what you see that
we've just flown over there going back
to where we did for the farm our
transfers in the last couple of days the
our technology system pts unit is here
on one set of lockers which as for that
no difficulty as the first power
transfer here's a French laser
spectrometer called Alice and here are
the cg b a crystal growth units up in
the next set of lockers and we transfer
those we've only got one more of the
power transfers to go coming out of all
three rota we go back to the load
through the hatch that was used just a
few months ago when three rotor came on
up take a look around the nose just to
show you how is you know bila confusing
place it can be up there there's no up
or down and you got to follow your nose
to get to the right place and here's the
orbit module of the Sawyer's that has
the sky founder or launch and entry
suits that include now John's the folks
will be using that to come back down
here
when valerian sasa land here the few
months Shannon preparing for exercise
here with help of Sasha as a flight
engineer commanders eye view of the
control post there that's where they
conduct most of their air-to-ground
sessions also got a viewport there at
the center and a display similar to what
we have on board the shuttle in order to
do control of the vehicle big white
tubes on either side as you can see to
carry the air back and forth and around
the mirror which is a huge complex 120
tons now and once you get to that that
docking no avoids real easy to get kind
of confused which way is left which way
is down which way is quant which way is
crystal but here we wound up going into
inspector we're going to take a peek at
John here there we go there's John this
is where Shannon did most of her work
The Spectre arrived well norm was there
and he was the one that that had a
chance to unpack it all Shannon kind of
set up her laboratory in there until
free rotor arrived to see her balloon
her books there John getting prepared to
work here with his laptop and going
through an awful lot of his new
inventory get set to go to work with
some of the file management that comes
up and down there air-to-ground now the
pretty pretty pink tag there is intended
to be read that's that's kind of our
signal on board that the Tom Akers
devised as to the red goes over to the
mirror and the blue all comes back to us
floating back towards the towards the
node here Sasha and I spend a lot of our
mornings in quad to we both love
photographing mirrors and looking out
the windows and you'll see while here in
a second as we get through some of the
gyro dimes and help stabilize the MIR
station and into the compartment at the
far end of quarter that's their air lock
was used for very VA's here are their
spacesuits and there are three windows
at any given time generally there's one
of the face in the ground it's a
wonderful place to be even though it
kept cold for a number of reasons not
least of which to keep the space suits
in good shape there's a beautiful opener
with a solar array stick it down towards
it and our radiators from one of the
windows of quantum you can just see the
full array that came down right from it
the commander's killer our monetary will
converse sitting during the rendezvous
and wouldn't entertain excite during the
rendezvous now we had a really beautiful
pass over New Zealand out another
picture this one taken from a flight
engineers cabin onboard the MIR station
CJ is given in a little bit to get a
picture of the overhead windows that's
kind of what they were looking at well
we were looking back at them during the
the rendezvous docking a little bit
wider view of that spectacular well here
we are in the base block where shannon
has started her exercise and Sasha the
flight engineer flight engineer one
double hop a flight engineer to is
getting ready to talk to folks on the
amateur radio that they use their
thanks for providing the docking module
to us there we appreciate that bill
we're going to make a turn here into the
Spacehab
I kind of fly it into the end of the
have here you can see the oil on suits
toe down there at the bottom and kind of
panning up all our return bags with the
blue label's I'd like to know what's
been the biggest surprise for you since
you have become a mere cosmonaut which
happened a couple of days back I guess
the right answer to that is I'm amazed
at how quickly i am adapted to the
mirror I've never been on the real meal
before it looks very different than the
simulators I trained in and so at first
I was a little concerned about that but
Hawaii here and Sasha my two Russian
crewmates as well as Shannon who spent
six months there and really helped me
out the last three days and I feel like
I'm very comfortable there right now I
had a great night sleep and I feel very
good on the mirror right now tell me
about the emotions that you were feeling
during docking the hatch opening itself
and now that you're back with astronauts
again wow I guess but I before they're
supposed to watch it sort of like
Christmas Eve when you're a kid you know
what I mean you just have a hard time
getting to sleep and you're just
wondering uh just what's going to happen
the next day and then you know just took
it one step at a time first of all they
had to dock and that when just real fine
then they had to have a hack to me
because the docking wasn't any good the
hatch didn't get open and everything
just fell on just great and then finally
you and hatch opening we met each other
then you could sort of start thinking
about going home one of the first things
you're going to be asked to do when you
get home is make recommendations for
improvements to mere to make it more
habitable for future crew members what
would you fix about mirror if you could
well I guess the first door and
basically the only suggestion that I
would really have is just to have more
experiments to do because that's the fun
thing to do and more is better as far as
I'm concerned here duh when you when you
go on it for the first time John and if
the atmosphere is clammy or anything
what's yeah what is it like in there
today the truth I've heard those
comments before but I thought the
atmosphere there was very similar to a
shuttle I find it very comfortable and
what I was really surprised that is what
I'm going to call the tremendous volume
inside to move around then having been
with the shuttle for so many years when
I come back to the shuttle now I to me
it looks smaller than I used to think it
was so the volume in the mirror is quite
large and that's the most thing that I
was impressed with no I don't smell
anything in there myself well that's
good i think i've got a couple more
questions for shannon that if people
around here have come up with what are
you going to do for an encore obviously
it's gonna take you a time some time to
recover from the effects of
weightlessness for six months when you
get back and talk to your bosses at NASA
what are you going to say you'd like to
do next have to ask me if I had a
preference I would just like to have an
interesting job I mean I just didn't
really enjoy working and I hope that I
just have an interesting job but right
now my vision of life I guess doesn't
extend much further than landing and
saying hello to my family I can
understand that a challenge were you
able to see other satellites frequently
as you are orbited the earth and did you
see space jump flyby at all when you had
time to look out the windows so I
thought about you can see if you are
little flecks of oh I think it's like
paint something like that coming off me
and they would sort of sparkle in the
sunlight you can see that and as far as
satellite the fob you know the moon a
lot and I saw a lot of the satellites of
Jupiter lot but I didn't see any
artificial satellite
all right quick final question for
Valeri it's the question about Russian
president Boris Yeltsin his health has
deteriorated there's some debate about
the open-heart surgery on him Ava Larry
have you heard about this and be or you
concerned about the health of President
Yeltsin that is the medical of course we
are are concerned about the health of
the President and about any upcoming
operations but this is a strategic
question we are primarily concerned up
here with the health of the crew at this
time and the performance of the crews
mission all right commander thank you
very much thank all of you for joining
us on CNN today