the same way
if
i change my clothes
if
good morning atlantis it's time to do
that delicate dance in the dark and dock
with mirror
well thanks houston uh
i hope we can find beer easier than i
found the speaker
or the microphone
in the dark it's about 320 miles ahead
you're closing 140 miles of rev
and if you could throw the tips on
uh we have a little bit of ku we can
send you
your flight plan
roger and just to report we have a tally
ho on dave's new home mirrors in the
coast
about half degree to the left and
up
roger
is
390
um
foreign
is
you should be getting an image now
we got it mike
and when this one's done i have another
one of the center line camera
well we're sure not going to turn that
offer down
foreign
what is
what's your value
hey
this live television coming from the
shuttle atlantis from payload bay
cameras looking up the orange docking
module uh right above it the cristal
science module
and right above the payload bay of
atlantis
that is the soyuz capsule attached to
the mir space station
right above it the parota module with a
larger radar antenna attached to it the
spectre module is off to the right
the kevant ii module is on the left
and houston here
comes vern
roger
that's it
yay
oh
they're just passing the computer
through
for you too
all right
hey
jim we sure can it looks great
you cannot believe the number of times
that
several of us on board
said unbelievable on our way up here
either with the scene the views
uh the procedures we had that just
the fact that we were doing this none of
us can can still believe it and i just
had a shock when i looked out the window
over here and saw atlantis
it took us a while to get to the mere
core module here uh and i didn't realize
how far away atlantis was
we'd like to
thank all of the people down on the
earth who it's a tremendous amount of
teamwork required to put something like
this together and we had discussions all
the way up when we were in cook quarters
in quarantine just before coming up
regarding the procedures and what do we
do
if we have failures and just
both sides of the ocean worked on this
flight
for a long time and we want to thank
everybody who worked on it uh we think
this is a great crew
to tell us there was a lot of discussion
about the risk we are here to tell you
all 10 of us that we think the benefits
far outweighs the risk
and that's why we're here and
we're really enjoying it this is a great
ship i can't believe it i saw it two
years ago from 30 feet which is not very
far away
but it turns out it was really far away
compared to
the last 30 feet and then coming all the
way in to the mirror base block
today atlantis
has again
come to the near station
the crew has performed a wonderful
docking
yeah and today
we start
right as to say continue
the near nasa program
that has been going on for several years
and we are very happy
that step by step
and every step that we take is very firm
and measured that will lead us
to the performance of
new
uh tasks that uh are required to be done
both in moscow
and in houston
i wanted to
send greetings to all the specialists
that have prepared these programs on the
ground and to greet
the crew that has come onto the mir
station
we are sure and with great enthusiasm
we'll perform the entire program that
has been planned
for our
and for our joint operation in this
joint complex
this is your crew of the future several
of us have flown together before we hope
to fly together in the future
and for the next six days we are working
together as a single crew to transfer uh
much equipment and this is the wave of
the future you see the different uh
international shirts that we have on
russian american and french
and this is what will take us into the
next century in space
well i have to say quite simply that
this is one of the the proudest moments
of my life to be a part of such a
bold
international cooperation a program
that's bringing the world much much
closer together and i look forward to
the rest of this flight
and to the future uh as we build the
international space station and i hope
very shortly to be going back to the
moon and on to mars with an
international crew very similar to the
one that you see before you today
happy with jean louis to be on the
station after nine years of absence
while approaching the station we were
very impressed by its wonderful view
we'll see what a great uh enterprise
this is and compare it to what it was
nine years ago and what it is now it has
significantly grown in many ways
in terms of
volume and equipment and the quantity of
work
it is particularly pleasant that the
station has continued to operate and it
is pleasant uh to think of our engineers
and designers and cosmonauts who perform
the operations with this station i hope
that we will fully
complete the program that lies before us
i thought i'd pass on a first impression
to you
i think you'd really like it up here
because there's more
equipment and gizmos and ham radios and
computers
to play with and work with then you can
believe it's just the kind of place
you'd love bill
i can believe it dave
actually you have been here i've seen it
think about it
and i'm gonna like this there's a lot to
work with here
yeah dave it it's just which is
fantastic we're awfully proud of you
being up there especially a good old
sls-2 crew one more sls 2 crew member up
on mir
well it's fun talking to you
on the ground and with you in space
i think i'm going to have to kick mike
out of here he's not going to want to go
i get a feeling
he's anxious to see his family and all
that but there's things he said he's
gonna miss
i just had to thank everybody for doing
such a super job getting these guys off
the ground and up in space
and uh towards towards the space station
i do actually want to go home they've
just been telling me how my son has
grown up for about twice the height of
the road
i was on the earth
and i want to have him talk to me in
person but these are great guys and i'm
looking forward to working within the
next few days and returning to my family
you