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good boy isn't that music sounded
vaguely familiar i was wondering what
the band was doing that all i know is
they have a rhythm guitarist it's out of
this world chili you're gonna run and
chris get to hear from you nice to be
with you as well chili good morning
we're handing over right now to the
orbit one team it was a pleasure to put
together a plan for use for today and
we're looking forward to the EV ate them
all all right Chris and we look forward
to execute them your plan and we see we
got a bunch of tips messages on board
already and we'll get right into them
thanks a lot for all the hard work your
ship put in for us talk to your moral
you
guess I last voyage joy and Dave that's
a beautiful tribute to a bob Overmyer
and I want to let you all know that our
coup is sends their deepest sympathies
to his family bob was a he lived life to
the fullest he was quite a wonderful man
and those who met him surely never will
forget him and I remember most that
among many things that he was very
instrumental in the work on Space
Station and so I think we're charged to
carry on with his work and thanks very
much for Senate up the poem you're
welcome chilly go ahead rich yeah Dave
we got a good fix on the combat
Hyakutake right now and it is absolutely
beautiful we're trying to take some
images of it with the f4 night lens and
hopefully they'll turn out but the tail
is absolutely long it looks like it goes
to the end of the university incredible
we're on camera Delta maybe you could
help us orient the camera point it
straight at the middle base block it's
between the solar arrays of the mirror
base block okay
I would say tilt 90 and pan about 30
we'll start there 30 to the right Raj
good morning do you have an opening
statement before we take questions yes
I'd like to make an opening statement
and I'll ask yer to make one also we'd
like to welcome everyone aboard the
Atlantis Mears base complex here now I
begin by first recognizing the mir-21
crew the three people right in front of
me it used to be Jew but now three and
the rest of the sto 76 crew here in the
back row there when will one shorter
than what we took off with and it's been
a major accomplishment for us on this
flight bringing Shannon up here to the
MIR space station for the first of many
visits by US astronauts to the MIR space
station and we're very proud to
participate in that in addition we've
been working really hard lately and are
quite pleased with the results for the
plan they're wrong excuse me Ron brought
together as our payload commander for
the transfer plan and we've had three a
very productive days transferring a
supplies the mirror to ensure that it
can continue in its mission here in
Earth orbit and on top of that i think
the x 0 akland has been going really
really well also and so i would like to
welcome you all aboard and i'll pass the
microphone now to Commander on your
Franco for his welcoming statement this
is Marcia Dunn of the associated press
for dr. lucid I'm wondering if you could
describe your initial impressions as you
floated into mirror the other day what
struck you most about the space station
any surprises when we floated in it felt
pretty much like I was coming home
because I've been in the trailer then
Star City quite a few times and so I
felt really comfortable coming in and
of course year annually were there and
they welcomed us very very warmly and so
the sort of like coming back home and
see your friends and they hearing your
has gone out of the way to make all of
us feel very welcome and very
comfortable here and their home bill
Hartwick cbs4 commander Chilton I guess
commander as you mentioned with Shannon
lucid flight here at least through phase
one there will be a permanent US
presence in space and if phase one
overlaps the first flight to
International Space Station it's a
permanent presence for the indefinite
future what's the significance of that
in your view I mean historically is that
a major milestone for the u.s. program
how do you look at that well still i do
I think you know we want to establish a
permanent presence in space and from a
historical Specter spective you can look
back on the discovery of America and the
early colonization of it and until they
actually were kind of beginning the
colonization of space here we've been to
and from just as the early explorers
were doing from North America from
Europe and then finally they settled and
then they started to do productive work
over there and found at this great
nation so I kind of look at it in the
same similar light where we've been
coming to them from space and when we
get here prominently then we can start
seeing the the fruits of our labors and
a quick question for Shannon lucid dr.
lucid obviously in two days or so you're
going to be left there on your own for
several months with the to yuri's I'm
just wondering is is undocking
approaches if now that the initial rush
of excitement is over from getting there
if that feeling of watching the shuttle
depart how you might respond to that or
is it just all business for you up there
also about to see the 76 CUDA part
because I've really enjoyed working with
in and being a part of that cruise but
I've also enjoyed being a part of the
mere toy one crew and the fight over
their benefits through the pod then
we'll be able to sort of settle down
into a routine and start yeah it's been
a little productive work than
on the science things like that no I
will be none for dr. I'm just moving
that we don't want like a routine yet
this is irene brown again with the UPI
first shannon again you've been with
nasa a long time through many
administrators and space shuttle program
changes in space station designs did you
ever imagine that the shuttles first
port in space would be a would be a
Russian craft or that you who has had a
personal brush with war would be
stationed on it no this is sort of
beyond my wildest dreams I never
envisioned that I'd be sitting here with
Americans and Russians on board the
Russian space station so just goes to
show that you can never plan on
everything that's going to happen in
life
hey you guys look good good morning
america this is Houston please call
Atlantis for voice check all right to
Columbia this is charlie gibson in New
York on Good Morning America do you hear
me I sure do I Lohan Charlie are you
today I'm sorry I said columbia and i
should say atlantis uh I'm but I'm off
on my airships here but it's a good to
see all of you and you can hear me we
can hang on Clara all right thanks we
will we will start in about 10 seconds
on our end Colonel Chilton let me start
with you are you all up there
disappointed that Apollo 13 didn't get
best picture last night well believe it
or not that's the first we've heard of
it so you're breaking the bad news to us
back I'm sure we've all seen it I know I
command only Franco and and board
engineer usage F have seen that movie
and they really liked it and everybody
else my Christine and really loved it
and I'm a big fan of Tom Hanks and run
our well the Academy may not have gone
for Apollo 13 they chose Braveheart is
best picture but we can safely say that
a poll of the Atlanta screw and of the
Soviets came out with Apollo 13 is Best
Picture correct how did that be safe to
say although you know we watch
Braveheart in quarantine just before we
launch and then I was a good movie to
you have a kind of sleep schedule that
only Joan and I can relate to i think
colonel chilton we tend to lose track of
some of these missions in space but this
one obviously very much a first and you
should run it down for it well you bet
it's the first time that a woman has
joined an American woman has joined the
Emir crew and the Shannon lucid we was
originally a member of the SGS 76 crew
and we had the official handover the
other day
join the mir-21 crew with Kozma honey
Franco and usage f and so that's a first
and it's also the beginning it's the
beginning of a continuous US presence
space we're getting ready for another
first tomorrow and that's when Linda and
riches you see here in the front are
going to make a historic spacewalk it
will be the first time people have gone
out the door from a u.s. shuttle wall
attached to a space station and in this
case the MIR Space Station and it's
going to be a special moment tomorrow
we're all looking forward to it all
right so we're going to have a series of
Americans up there at least through 1998
and what's going to happen during those
two years plus what are they several
things number one I'll give us the
Americans a chance to know what it's
like to have a continuous presence face
and also to get more information on what
happens when people spend very long time
since safe the Russians had a few spread
facial mask in years and this is the
first time that the Americans have a
chance to start learning what had a
continual presence in space it so we'll
learn about that it will also help us
learn what we are operational is what we
need to know when we start operating
space station and it will also learn
more about cooperating with other
nations which phase space station will
depend upon know we can cooperate with
other nations to very large three and in
addition to that will be connected
scientific experiment and will hopefully
collecting data well there we are back
on those time schedules again that gets
so confusing for people but to a rich
what so the purpose of the spacewalk
Charles there's three main purposes the
the first purpose is to install for
experiments on the exterior of the
docking module which is attached to the
mirror core module and then we're also
going to evaluate some special tools and
equipment for building the space station
and the third thing is we're going to
bring back a camera which was installed
on the docking module for SBS 74s
docking mission
you
good morning i'm commander kevin chilton
aboard the space shuttle atlantis about
200 miles above the planet earth joined
here by the mir-21 crew from the russian
mir space station and this is commander
on your ankle good morning america
terrific guys terrific that's wonderful
thank you very much absolutely marvelous