Atlantis Houston good morning good
morning he's gonna how you this morning
we're doing fine it's a big day and when
the roll is called tomorrow Shannon
should be up yonder on Mir however they
can forget Chris
yes sir linens got beer inside in the
co-ed copy this is Mission Control
Houston that to call from a pilot Rick
Searfoss on board Atlantis indicating
the crew has cited the MIR space station
has a inside and its crew optical
alignment sight an optical sight that's
mounted in the windows of Atlantis
cockpit
incredible view of the MIR Space Station
over the earth
and chilly we're with you on the flight
tech now congratulations to all of you
on just a fine rendezvous no response
required please feel free i Linda hello
Ricky
it's like we're in time to see a sunset
on the mirror spectacular
Lanice Houston you're go for shuttle OTS
hatch opening for Delta P under point
two okay
and we have a good image of you chilly
the two of you look great
so it looks like they're welcoming you
aboard
Atlantis please Atlantis mirror please
verify you've installed the shuttle-mir
air duct
Atlantis and Mir Houston on their to
ground one please verify shuttle Mir air
duct installed
Atlantis hurry
and Houston the others going back to
help ours right we should have that vent
hooked up here in just a moment
copy chili
Shannen how do you like your new home
we file I have everybody here okay well
it's a bigger crowd than we usually get
in space a long time I just like to
begin by saying this today has been kind
of an unreal day and a very real day for
us the whole approach coming in know
everybody kept commenting on board the
shuttle how we just can't believe we're
here
mirror doesn't look real although it
certainly is and it looks I can't akan
the way and and that's the unreal part
of it the real part though is the fact
that there's a space station up here and
we flew a shuttle up to it and dock to
it and it's a just a good reminder now
having done this three times that this
is the operation of doing this is
maturing and that this is what we ought
to be doing this is the first time in my
three flights that I've actually gone
someplace when I left the planet Earth
and it's a very nice feeling
I'm happy to be here and Kevin did a
good job is little bit up and 76
goodness here Thank You Sharon's you're
too kind
and Dave we've brought some books along
for the children of your in Europe
because we both share the same dreams
and that is for a future space
exploration and for the future of our
children and we both have talked about
this before and we know it's very
important that we continue on with our
exploration of space and the
construction of the space station and
stand beyond not only for ourselves but
for our children one of the finest
aspects of our programs
go ahead chilly well I'm over in mirror
with Yuri and I brought the PTV a bottom
47 and there he told me there's a
refrigerator inspector who wants stuff a
lot of stone in there my checklist says
the base block
chili we think it needs to go into the
refrigerator in the base block in
Spectre if we think it's too large to go
into the test and it needs to be
refrigerated and not frozen and that's
why we don't want it in the t hoff okay
so you want it in the base block thank
you six that is in position 500 and just
check that the green LED is on thank you
we tell Atlantis we're getting ready to
start
step 6
51 minutes copy that Linda did you have
a completion time for fo 10-step of love
and we may have had ready calm and I
didn't copy
thanks chili
hey fellas for now copy
that's correct Linda