the stories
and every houston good morning
marketing
continuing to fly a very precise course
up toward the mere space station and
this view from the mir space station
looking at endeavour as it continues its
approach
toward the mir now at a distance of just
about 45 feet
um
and this view of the crew cabin of
endeavour from its overhead windows
houston we're with you tdrs z and vyamir
we're looking in through your two
overhead windows
these are the overhead windows in the
crew cabin of endeavor as it is now just
about 43 feet away from mir this view
coming from the mere space station
as endeavor approaches the 30 foot
distance from the mirror space station
this view of the overhead windows in the
crew cabin of endeavour
very shortly the crew will begin its
station keeping at the 30-foot level
before receiving their final go decision
to proceed for at the docking with mir
that docking expected just about 11
minutes from now
docking will take place in darkness as
this view also is in orbital night as
the two spacecraft now are some 209
nautical miles or 240 statute miles
high over the african continent
quick copyright
the crew is reporting that they have
cited the docking target on board mirror
and that no course correction is
required at this time
and the crew is now beginning its final
approach to the mirror passing inside
the 30-foot mark as it continues a very
slow approach for docking with the near
space station
endeavor now within 25 feet
closing at a rate up about one tenth of
a foot per second
yes yes
and contact between endeavor and the
mere space station confirmed on time at
2 14 p.m central time
over
thank you
and this view of astronaut dave wolf
aboard the mere space station as
endeavor is now initiating a
post-contact thrust maneuver to
to drive the two rings together to
create a hard mate between the two
spacecraft
uh
yes
and again dave wolf aboard the mir space
station now docked to endeavour
along with flight engineer pavel
vinogradov
foreign
here
endeavor houston for andy we have a good
view of the flight deck what's it look
like
home
it's an impressive site actually it's
just amazing it's been described as a
big uh
mosquito or dragonfly and it's right
it's got all kinds of wings on it it's
an incredible sign
once commander anatoly soloviev is done
with his activities opening up the
mirror hatch
as well as some housekeeping activities
at the conclusion of that
the shuttle will begin a pressurization
equalization prior to the opening of the
door from the or the hatch from the
shuttle side allowing the mir 24 and
sts-89 crews to greet each other
personally
and endeavor terry we have an excellent
view of you at the ods hatch and you
have a go for hatch opening
this is mission control houston
hatch opening and a first greeting
between mir 24 commander anatoly
soloviev and sts-89 commander terry
wilcott
as endeavor mir are passing just to the
southeast of australia
and greetings all around reminder to
push and hold the bips move
you guys look great
thank you
oh
an exchange of greetings continuing
as the mere 24 and sts-89 crews meet and
greet one
going right another
it was really the right food it was very
healthy
you guys look wonderful
this is really fun this is really fun
there's a space shuttle down there and
there's a rear space station that way
and we have a place for you
thanks for coming to get me
although i could have lived fine a lot
longer psychologically physically but
there's a lot of fun and good business
to be done on earth it's time to go back
i think and hand the ball over to andy
he's uh
very capable and should enjoy this
star city
thank you anatoly
it is uh our honor to be here on space
station mir and we thank you for your
welcome
we have looked forward to picking up our
friend dave and bringing him back home
and of course we'll be sad for leaving
our friend andy and but we know that
another crew will be here shortly to
pick him up and in the meantime i'm sure
he is in good hands
we have some gifts that we would like to
present to you here is some fresh fruit
we have a couple of other things here
we thought we would splurge and pick up
some chocolate space shuttles
and we also accept some of the crew
notebooks that we use on the shuttle
with some shuttle some space including
uh for uh both you and
kavel thank you for watching us aboard
one last one a
swiss army knife with a shuttle image on
the side
but most importantly we have bought you
this gift
well i guess the life's been a little
confusing for a year and a half now i'm
not sure whether i live in russia space
or america but i know it's going to be
america next
and i know all of you people from
different places from space we really
met in space and uh sally from star city
and russia you were my first roommate
and uh it's just amazing to see you all
again up here and and it really hits me
harder than i ever expected it would
thanks for coming and andy i look
forward to
helping you get adjusted and i think
you're in for a wonderful experience one
of the best of your whole life
thank you very much this is i've only
been in here a few minutes uh i can see
i'm going to have an awful lot to learn
though despite all the training but it's
going to be
a fascinating time there's no doubt
about that so thank you
thank you both
anatoly will help you learn
it's a great pleasure to be back not
only on through the space station here
to see my old commander again anatoly
great guy
and i'm sure andy will learn a lot
to this point and finally have seen each
other
and we are now see a number of happy
people
i feel very fortunate to have been here
to be here
among these people of course this is the
first time i'm important here
this is a very impressive
size scope of this
is just unbelievable
i
but for those of us who are here we are
one family we are all citizens of the
world and i greet you all
he said we're ready to go to work so
we're going to go ahead and sign off
thanks for being with us