linus houston good morning
good morning
born in chile that was uh
brass rhythm and reed playing jumping at
the woodside linda should be pretty
familiar with that tune
welcome linda you're going to have a pfc
right away at about eighteen hundred
okay
yeah chilly
first of all some big picture words the
mmt
has decided this morning
or this afternoon actually your morning
to protect the option
for the one day early entry
the decision the final decision won't
occur for at least another nine ten
hours that's late in your pre-sleep
so we need to protect that option we
realize
how busy you are and how much you have
to do to prepare for that
battery transfer bag
it says stowage bag assembly spectra
and the
it happens also be a serial number zero
zero one but it's the sed number four
six one
zero nine seven five four dash seven
zero one
okay dave i got the kid let me open it
up
maybe this uh this might point out a a
shortcoming where we might need to mark
on the kits an up and down uh
mission that they come up and down on uh
just a thought that you know can be
erased and refilled in
yeah i think we've run into a glitch
here
we did have it signed off a few days ago
as being returned already
thanks for checking out hey dave and i
got a couple more questions for you uh
like i mentioned earlier 30 uh empty
food containers are stowed and have
talked to yuri and he said he may have
two or three more and we got plenty of
storage room and a half for them
in fact they just brought three over
we're expecting up to 36 chile so uh
at your discretion
okay and then item 47 on u.s science
return
uh cristal target we got the base plate
and the standoff across your message
said bolts and washers there are no are
no bolts and washers
okay we'll write that down thanks
one late piece of data now on the hi kit
the new one should say nasa 2
on the label
and so
perhaps this is one that is looks brand
new but hasn't been used
lot thickens
atlantis mayor this is houston are you
ready for the event
yeah bill we're ready
cbs this is houston please call atlanta
smear for a voice check complicated and
it sounds as if the astronauts are
coming into focus so to speak atlanta
smear this is cbs how do you hear me
pbs we hear you loud and clear good
morning
good morning
we'll warn our audience there is a
little bit of a delay in our
conversation because of the
communications required let me just get
the introductions out of the way we're
joined by three astronauts this morning
and one of their russian crewmates they
are shuttled atlantis commander colonel
kevin chilton
mission specialist lieutenant colonel
rich clifford mission specialist linda
godwin and the commander of the mirror
station lieutenant colonel yuri
onyufrico brienko excuse me thank you
for being with us
it's our pleasure we're glad you're here
commander cheltenham
you and ask you to tell us and our
audience what the significance of the
mission is
well there's several uh significant
points to our mission uh bringing
shannon up and starting a first
permanent uh presence in space for the
u.s uh space program
is uh certainly one of the big events
that we've done here accomplished on
this mission and it will kind of be the
culmination of that uh event when we
close the hatch today and uh at least
and prepare for our undocking early
tomorrow morning on our day
uh the other uh another big thing we've
done is we've transferred over two tons
of supplies uh water
and uh equipment to uh the mir space
station which is really a first for the
u.s program to bring up that uh larger
quantity of equipment and then the other
great first that we did on this flight
which if i don't mention i'm going to
get poked in the head on either side it
was accomplished by rich and linda here
who made the first uh eba by a u.s team
from the space shuttle while docked to a
space station and this is really
a kind of the beginning or one of the
key elements of the construction of that
we need to show that we can do for the
construction of the international space
station and they did it with flying
colors
you've all been in space before i
believe
except for
lieutenant colonel on your franco does
it seem the same as in the past or um
still is thrilling
let me answer that uh two ways one is uh
commander a franco it might be his first
flight but he's got more days in space
than me on my third flight
and uh
the uh
the experience changes each time you
come up i've flown with kevin and linda
before on my second flight and it was uh
remarkable it was an earth observing
mission this one had its uh different uh
moments uh joining up with another
spacecraft is just just phenomenal it's
something you can't ever forget but the
physical reactions are pretty much the
same each time but the
psychological and the mental factors
that you take back with you the memories
are uh are just cherished
commander chilton it must be kind of
hard to leave shannon lucid behind she's
going to be up there on mir for quite
some time i know that this was the
intent and that was what was planned but
just the same it must be kind of hard to
leave her
absolutely we're going to miss shannon
both personally certainly in a personal
manner but i'll tell you what as the
commander you know shannon spent the
last 14 months before lunch in russia
and she only came back three weeks prior
to the launch of the shuttle so she'd
been completely away from the shuttle
program for a long time and she just fit
in you know just so perfectly with this
crew and has contributed so much to the
sts-76 crew mission here on orbit and i
know she's going to do the same thing
for the mir 21 crew which she's now a
member of
and but again i'd like to emphasize i
think everyone's going to feel kind of
sad tomorrow when we when we close the
hatch and say goodbye to our friend
shannon and not only shannon but but
yuri and yuri uh we've these guys are
great fellas and we've all come very
close up here
this will be the first time that uh any
american spacecraft has ever come back
without one of its crew members
you must see this as quite a milestone
is it for you like a division between
the space program the way it's always
been and what's coming up now with the
space station and a permanent presence
in
i space you'd normally get in trouble
for coming back one person short but on
this time i think we'll get a pat on the
back
um but if someone put it better than i
before we launched uh another another
astronaut they came up to me and said do
you realize that for the first time in
the shuttle program you guys are
actually going someplace
uh you're not just going up and down
you're going someplace and you have a
place to stop and do something at uh in
the middle of this mission and uh when
you think of in that regard i think this
is a milestone uh
in that it is the beginning of this
permanent presence here and uh and and
we hope to keep this presence that
continued on u.s presence in space on
through the mere phase one program and
right on into the phase two which is the
international space station build
nasa managers here are considering
shortening your mission and bringing you
back a little early
i imagine you'd have to be a little bit
disappointed losing a day in space if in
fact that happens
well we've all flown before and
personally you know i'm i'm
anxious to get home and see my family i
always am when i'm away and i think
other people maybe share the same
feeling so now one day earlier is not
that big a thing in the grand scheme and
i'll tell you one person who's not
feeling too bad about us getting back
early that's shannon because that just
means it's one extra day in an earlier
occasion that the kennedy space center
folks will have to get working on
atlantis and as you as you may not know
that's her ride home is atlanta so we
got it we got to get her back on the
ground and get working on her and get
her ready for sts-79
well we certainly appreciate you taking
the time out of your busy work day to
join us on up to the minute good luck
with the rest of the mission
thank you take care
and houston cbs thank you very much and
uh
thanks for coming on board thanks for
dania
houston cbs that concludes the event
they told us to say that exactly
and thanks cbs
and chili zoomed in it looks real good
okay we'll uh bring it back out and
compose it
how's it look now bill
you look marvelous
okay thanks for your help
and i guess i'd like to begin by saying
this is kind of a bittersweet moment for
us and uh one also filled with a lot of
satisfaction
um
we've had a wonderful time on the the uh
near atlantis complex here and it
started off just fantastic with the
warmest welcome anyone can imagine from
yuria dean and yuri davao
and
and it just has gone uphill from there
with a great working relationship
between the two crews and certainly the
sense of satisfaction uh that we feel
for having uh got the job done is is
tremendous and uh ron sega who is my
payload commander has been sweating the
transfer both to and from here from the
shuttle perspective and my yuri and yuri
have been working it real hard on the
mirror side and it's been a great team
effort and i think we're there
that's that's the satisfaction part
uh truly the uh
the sad part will be to bid farewell to
shannon and yuri and yuri uh this is a
tremendous team uh we're gonna miss them
um you know
we know we'll see shannon again when she
comes back on stef79 but uh but there's
a big ocean between russia and america
and uh it and i'm we're not all so
confident there sure are certain i
should say that we'll ever see our two
friends uh yuri and yuri again
one person
and with that houston uh we will bid the
formal farewell
and i'd like to extend my thanks to soup
in moscow for their great support
and to all the teams at the mcc
like that kid kenneth said some good
words it's been a very high pressure
time
to do the work
we worked not five days
only five days
and we maintained our regime and moved
all the cargos that we had to transfer
of 76.
we've alone for five days and
we just don't believe that in in just a
few minutes
that's the sts-76
we'll go through the
docking module
and we'll say farewell shut the hatches
we will observe each other
only through the portholes they'll be
looking at us we'll be looking at them
and then
we'll be in the base block
it'll be sad too
say farewell to such a great
team i'd
my thanks to the mission control centers
in moscow and in houston
they have done quite a bit to help us in
consulting with us
it's been
work well done
and a good example of how we can and
should work together
we have managed to come closer together
we've done a great deal of good work
it would be great if flights like this
could
uh continue could be prolonged for
several days but shannon is with us now
and she's going to be with us for four
and a half months and and we'll do the
good work that needs to be done thank
you
and houston if you'll excuse us now
we'll update our personal farewells and
finish up the last little bit of work
before uh before we close the hatch uh
thank you very much for for joining us
aboard the
base block here for fcs 76 and near tony
once farewell
bye-bye
houston is that these
uh uh
photographs or pictures i'm sorry
emblems uh have a spot on here for every
single one of the phase one joint
flights and uh shannon i think will have
the unique position to have her name on
here four times as a member of the 76 79
21 and 22 crews
well chile imagine that
one launch one landing and credit for
four missions
you