Debra mayor Houston good morning little
wakeup music for Mike
good morning Houston it sounds great
unfortunately and come to the time and
we must summarize what we have done
together and again unfortunately come to
the point where we speak of speak to our
friends of farewells and until we meet
again but this is natural because our
lunch a few minutes ago we called our
friends who work on the ground and who
would also like to go into space to work
on the MIR complex on the space shuttle
and the time has come to say farewell to
make way for others over the past few
years which have passed very quickly
that means that we've done quite a bit
of work and we are intent with what we
have accomplished we have good good
impressions a large number of good
results we hope are returning on the
shuttle which is our hope and this is
why indeed people fly into space
we hope that the results of these
experiments will help everyone on the
planet I would like to express my thanks
to everyone who trained the crews all
the specialists who helped in the
training to perform all of these tasks
and a great thanks to the commander of
the space shuttle and to all of the crew
members because each tried to perform
their tasks only in the most diligent
and most excellent way thank you to
everyone who took part in this mission
the men on this new space station
Kookaburra
have asked for a better host or more
professional cosmonauts I've never said
we met two more professional people the
MIR space station itself is an extremely
nice laboratory for doing scientific
work in space it's been a wonderful
professional mission and I think we have
accomplished 100% of the things that we
came up here to do and very sad to leave
to not only find cosmonauts that
excellent sense that was made up to I'd
like to give that Dave wolf a chance to
say something
thanks Terry this has been an amazing
experience it's been one of the hardest
of my life and I think Andy can expect
the same but that's how the best
experiences in our lives must be in many
cases we've made the best of friends
with poeple and Anatoly I have to say
that we are bringing together two of the
finest spacefaring nations in the world
and the result that we're going to get
as we join forces in the International
Space Station is going to be amazing the
whole cut but all of our countries will
take part in this and enjoy this and we
will share in it and the results will
design our future quality of life just
as massive the past design their current
quality of life and so enjoy taking part
we want to share with all of you and
look forward to seeing you on Earth
so this is our a day of mixed feelings
for me because on the one hand the
shuttle is leaving and the funds that I
beam was will be leaving and flying home
I'll be staying here starting what would
be a new phase of my life during
probably what is one of the most unusual
things that anybody could do in this the
last part of the 20th century so they're
leaving that they'll just be the
opportunity to start this adventure that
I'm on so this is Mark Kuro with the
Houston Chronicle newspaper for dr.
Wolfe I wonder what you anticipate for
yourself physically as you return to
Earth do you look forward to a quick
readapt ation to gravity do you think
it's going to be kind of drawn-out will
it be kind of what your predecessors
have encountered or are you going to try
to hurry it up you feel like a Superman
you can lift a refrigerator with your
baby finger and so I'm feeling pretty
good and we've been working out pretty
hard and I expect to be able to walk off
that shuttle and if the scientific
community will allow me that can harm
some of the results that we're looking
for I'm looking for a pretty quick
recovery this is Michele coid in with
the Associated Press for Andy Thomas
your new commander for Mir said today
from Baikonur that your Russian is
pretty poor and he's afraid that it's
going to have a negative impact on your
work do you agree that it might affect
your work communication will
and farm looking forward to doing
Madeline I can assure that Space Station
Mir is a great place to learn Russian
mr. Michelle caught him at the AAP again
for commander Soloviev since the next
commander of mir did expressed concern
about Andy Thomas's Russian skills how
would you say you rate his skills nd
speaks very well in Russian I expect
that there will may indeed be some
problems however in the several days
that we have worked together and the I
have not seen any problems I'm telling
you this without any reservation you
speak very well I agree with Dave wolf
that it's excellent environment for the
learning of a language this is Seth
Borenstein from the Orlando Sentinel for
dr. wolf you've talked about in the past
how you've had some down periods and
some up periods during your four months
can you tell us what the what
precipitated the lowest periods what
they were like and what precipitated the
highest periods and what they were going
out with the most experienced space
Walker in the world for a private lesson
this was anatoly sixteen space walk and
when you put the carabiner on the
outside and float outside and get a good
look at what's really going on here
that's got to be one of the highest
points in your life todd halvorson of
florida today for the mere 24 crew could
you tell us whether you think the
shuttle-mir program has helped the
United States and Russia bridge cultural
technical and language barriers and
whether you think that experience will
help both sides prepare
for building the International Space
Station there will be a great benefit as
I look back at what we've all learned
I'm talking about the people on the
ground and the control centers the
people that design these missions in
kuranda cruise it would be hard to
imagine pressing forward with the
International Space Station not having
had the experience of the joint
shuttle-mir program bill Harwood Seabee
yeah it's just a change of subject
question I know the flight control team
down in Houston today took just a moment
to recall flight 51l which of course was
12 years ago today I was just curious if
you guys out there took a moment to
remember that today or if you're too
busy er what your thoughts might be
actually we took a moment to remember
that last night was very well liked they
say everyone remembers when that
happened she brought it up to us and we
took a moment to remember it last night
bill Horne with CBS again also for
Anatole Slav you have sir though I guess
there's a half-dozen spacewalks or e VA
schedules for the mere 25 crew coming up
and several of those are listed as
Spector repair EVs
if someone who's there and has looked at
this pretty intimately and worked on it
yourself what do you think the prospects
are of eventually being able to recover
the use of Spectre downstream very
urgent work undoubtedly it will require
extensive expenditures both material and
and physical effort on the part of the
crew because it requires PVA and work
inside the station but to say briefly
it's a very urgent real work it's a good
practice or the possible repairs to be
performed on the future Space Station
all of you understand mirror very well
it's very fine detail right now we are
to build a new International Space
Station what what impressions as you do
you as specialists do what might you
have in terms of what you'd like to see
in a new station I will take the lead in
answering first yes it's true
soon the first segment of the
International Space Station will be
launched into orbit
as far as what we might desire this is a
very broad question but if - if we
answer it briefly we might want to pay
attention to design and ergonomic human
factors aspects of the interior of the
station there's a great deal of effort
that must be expended in this area and
the crew can have a great deal of input
you international station will be a
great achievement of the two leading
spacefaring nations and other countries
it will be a work place it will be a
major achievement place one shirts and
we'd like to present these to you and
face one remember with the stepping
stone to the next place International
Space Station and then hopefully on to
Mars
so anatoly
are you with us on audio for sure our
Dave we're good I'd like to exploring
something here the touch that's a lot in
space there's a a factory a candy
factory that's on the near the central
part of Moscow called the Red October
candy factory and they've been sending
us for the best candy in the world it
comes up in the progress launches some
came up on the shuttle and anyway we've
been enjoying that but we found another
candy factory and we've been receiving
all this candy but we want to give
something back and it's from Indiana
this is the Wolfe County Factory in Auto
candy Anna made this so we'll try this
after dinner tonight and one for you and
it's only one for you Pavel and kill me
makes a big difference up here it's one
of the joys of space homemade candy from
the wolf patch in Attica Indiana
something wrong experience is just too
much don't have the right words Chris
that concludes our event we copy all
teri thanks for having us on board