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charlie and that is just spectacular we
see the station clearly through the
pedals of the docking ring at the top of
the MIR Space Station is the Soyuz
capsule used by Gabby at the top of the
space station is the Soyuz capsule we
have a beautiful picture we see is
ooming in now
this split-screen view now on the left
side showing the extended docking ring
abort above the orbiter docking system
and the right-hand view again showing
the centreline camera view from the
orbiter docking system as it looks at
the blinking lights along the crystal
modules docking port this is Mission
Control Houston has the shuttle Atlantis
and the MIR space station pass across
the southern tip of South America our
first views of the shuttle has taken
from the mirror and relayed to the
United States we have video from the MIR
spacecraft looking at you that's right
we won't have it for a while Atlantis is
currently passing over Tierra del Fuego
and the southern tip of South America
u.s. astronaut norm thagard is manning
the camera here providing this
television view again Atlantis will stop
at it at a point thirty feet from the
MIR space station for five additional
minutes of station keeping at which
point flight director Bob castle here in
Houston and Russian flight director
Victor blog off in Kaliningrad will take
one final assessment of the status of
their two vehicles before proceeding on
for the docking which is now less than
fifteen minutes away
Atlantis about two minutes away from
reinitiating its final approach to the
MIR Space Station time to docking less
than seven minutes
this picture of the orbiter docking
system it is ready for contact and
capture with the Christelle modules
docking mechanism in this television now
from the shuttle Atlantis showing a
split screen on the left side the
orbiter docking systems docking ring at
the bottom of the picture at the top is
the crystal modules docking port the
picture on the right side shows the
centreline camera view out of the
orbiter docking system Atlantis 16 feet
from the mirror time to docking 2
minutes 45 seconds
this picture now from the MIR Space
Station showing the approach of the two
docking mechanisms toward each other
Atlantis 10 feet from the MIR time to
docking 1 minute 50 seconds Atlantis 8
feet away hoot Gibson edging Atlantis at
a rate of less than one-tenth of a foot
per second
a Space Shuttle in a space station now
six feet from each other time to docking
one minute like controllers here
standing by for contact and capture of
the two vehicles against one another
we have capture job' capture atlantis we
confirm Mir in free drift with the
capture initiated between Atlantis and
mere 20 years after apollo-soyuz a u.s.
spacecraft and a Russian spacecraft are
once again joined a Norman
commander vladimir Doozer off aboard the
mirror also confirms capture mechanical
systems officer here reports that the
two docking mechanisms are now aligned
the docking ring on atlantis should be
retracted shortly once fully retracted
the structural meeting of the hooks and
latches on both sides of the docking
interfaces will be this television view
from the MIR Space Station showing mir
19 cosmonauts anatoly Salovey EV and
nikolai boo Daren waving out the windows
in the window Salovey Evan boo Daren
just a few hours away from moving in to
the MIR Space Station to take over
control of the mirror from their
colleagues commander vladimir de Jero
flight engineer gennady strike aloft and
cosmonaut researcher norm thagard the
first u.s. astronaut to fly on the
mirror
congratulations space shuttle Atlantis
Space Station Mir after 20 years our
spacecraft are docked in orbit again our
new era of space exploration has begun
it's a great feeling to be here
and we've had the formal wedding of the
United States and right in this live
television now coming from payload Bay
cameras aboard Atlantis looking at the
the doctor interface between the
Christelle module and the shuttles
orbiter docking system looking at
cameras at the front of the payload Bay
looking aft Houston if we show vegetable
pressurization complete and please
coordinate with the MIR crew for the
leak check
okay we'll look at that planet Houston
AOS teachers West that you the folks
have opened their hatch copy the MIR
hatch is open we concur we have a good
image of you your go to open the shuttle
hatch
a lot easier without gravity
and this television from the shuttle
perspective
on the left is a mere 19 Commander
Anatole Soloviev flight engineer gennady
struggle off of the miry team crew in
the blue suit in between them is a mere
19 flight engineer nikolay boo darin in
the moustache of the background this is
old home for anatoly's Aliyev this is
his fourth flight to the MIR Space
Station prior to the launch of atlantis
on tuesday Solovyev had logged 378 days
in orbit atlantis commander hoot Gibson
on the right
there are pictures being taken and video
being shot of the initial entrance by
Atlantis's crew into the MIR Space
Station all of the crew members will be
positioned shortly to begin a brief
welcoming ceremony this is quite a view
and experience
the rest of the crew members now
congregating we concur and it looks like
you're all thoroughly enjoying yourself
I think we have a lot of work and a lot
of science for the rest of this mission
he said the first part of the adventure
is over and we're waiting for the second
part which is the landing I guess in
actuality there will be many many many
second parts copy that loud and clear
hoot we have a long history in front of
us and a lot of accomplishments too to
make a little more room now than we had
with apollo-soyuz right at the actual
actual contact point but as you can see
we have a whole lot more room here in
the base block
my best everybody there and it's good to
talk with you and it'll be good to see
everybody when we long that's great
it'll be another great welcoming
ceremony then we were wondering if maybe
you might be able to count heads at this
point and and see if we've got everybody
here we think we have everybody here
that's a lot of people in space at one
time we'll count it up we count ten
people in view
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right
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about one thing and that's to see if
they're going to let us if we can if we
could plant our sticker somewhere
they're not allowed to but we're going
to take a look and see if we can put our
sticker up copy we have six more minutes
until teachers hand over okay we're back
with you okay great
okay we have a great image of the joint
patch from the US Russian space program
we all like to tell you how inspiring it
was to watch our country's two great
spacecraft docked together out there and
just their beautiful spacecraft prove we
agree this was a pretty spectacular day
for all of us and it was a real thrill
for us to get to see the mirror floating
floating freely after as it has done for
so many years now and after all the
training in the preparation it seems
hard to believe that we're actually
there but indeed we are
yes and we have two additional steps
we'd like to give a try on here when
you're ready copy alright first we'd
like you to check the connections on the
rs-232 between the EM gas and the
computer check those connections and
following that try the try icon again
this is Mission Control Houston aboard
the MIR space station in Atlantis the
crews day is winding down as they
approach their evening meal time they're
almost getting to the end of their
active duty day and I will move into
that timeframe that is the evening
timeframe where they have a couple of
hours to get ready to begin their
eight-hour sleep period we're currently
receiving live television from Atlantis
as it's docked to the MIR station the
two spacecraft are creating the largest
spacecraft ever in Earth orbit at a mass
of almost half a million pounds at
present the two are above the Pacific
Ocean well off the coast of South
America at an altitude of 216 nautical
miles this is Mission Control this is
Mission Control Houston this view is
from the Space Lab module mounted in the
cargo bay of Atlantis activity in the
space lab module today has been we got
you in the module on mission specialists
uh Bonnie Dunbar and Ellen Baker are at
work activating it as they have been for
the past hour and a half or so preparing
it for the various medical and
scientific investigations
okay thanks this is Mission Control
Houston is Atlantis in the MIR Space
Station fly 215 nautical miles above the
Atlantic Ocean off the coast of
Newfoundland these views are from my
cameras mounted in the cargo bay of
Atlantis various views of the MIR
station from several different cameras
have been displayed over the past a
couple of minutes on board the cruise
day is winding down that they're
reaching a point for the evening on
board where they'll be preparing to go
to sleep as sleep time begins at 5:32
p.m. Central
this view shows the docking interface
between Atlantis and I the MIR station
the two modules together in the docking
mechanism I in the lower centre of the
view
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