 Well, the Spirit of 76, the kind of motto of this crew and the spirit behind the flight has been one of teamwork. We required a lot of teamwork amongst the crew members to execute the difficult portions of this flight, be it the rendezvous, the transfer operations, the EVA, all the spectacular first that took place. But the teamwork didn't end with the crew. It certainly, in fact, had its beginnings as origins with the folks sitting in this room and all the people here at the Johnson Space Center, took a great team, a great team effort to pull off STS-76 and make it look easy. I've had more people come up to me and say, gosh, it looked like you're having a lot of fun up there. The mission was such a great success. Those things don't happen by accident. They happen because of a lot of dedicated hard work that's done by each and every person in this room and the other folks on this center that were associated with making STS-76 a reality. So on behalf of the crew, I'd like to begin today by thanking each and every one of you here. You're all award winners in my mind, and we really appreciate you coming over here today and doing the great work that you do day in and day out at the Johnson Space Center. Well now I'd kind of like to transition into the home movie side of the adventure. I want you to know this is a premiere of this picture. We've looked at edited versions, so I'm as excited as you are to watch what happens here as we roll it. This was the evening before launch, and you can see it. We couldn't ask for better weather. Once the winds calmed down on the 21st, the 22nd turned out to be a spectacular night to go fly with an ungodly hour to lift off at 3.13 in the morning. Here we are walking out of the crew quarters, and I was surprised. You may have seen me jerk my hand to the side with surprises. I saw a member of our training team standing there smiling at us. So we had a lot of support from Johnson down there for the launch. I don't care how many times you sit on top of this thing, these few seconds that you're witnessing here are something that you can never really be fully prepared for. The power of the space shuttle main engines as they throttle up on the pad in those final six seconds, and that feeling in your heart, the bottom of your heart that you know good and well you're going someplace in a hurry here momentarily, is one that will be always a part of my memory. I've never experienced a night launch, and as you can see from the lift off, it's incredibly bright. As we clear the tower, I watched the tower go by. It was like daytime looking out the left window, and during the later stages of Ascent I got to witness post-solid rocket motor separation here. The experience of seeing out the front window of the orbiter pulsating lights from the main engines in the rear. So you are really kind of in a little glow there, a little lighted glow as you proceed uphill toward main engine cutoff eight and a half minutes after lift off. You can see us opening the payload bay doors here, and this is sped up a bit by the way, so it doesn't take so long in the film, but that's always a relief to get on orbit, get a go to stay on orbit and open the doors. The next morning on flight day two after going through the internal airlock and down the tunnel, we got to the hatch for a space hab, and here Ron and I are opening that on our second morning, first real morning on orbit, our second day, to get ready to open up the hab and activate it and start operations back there, and this was a very busy place during the mission. As we float into it here, you can see that there was a lot of stowage back here. There's some new soft stowage bags up on the wall, first time they've ever flown. Those were developed for the other equipment that we had to transfer to mirror. You just saw the gyrodyne on the right side, and this panning view shows the bio rack and the glove box. So between the bio rack and all the transfer operations back here that went on while we were docked, it was a busy place. And back up on the flight deck, Rick is taking a look at the camera mounted up there. That's our electronic camera for kidsat. We left it in the window during the undocked times. It took digitized images of the earth and made them available to the students on the ground who were controlling the camera. This is a view of Florida from kidsat, and I want to emphasize that we really began the rendezvous portion of this mission right from launch as we launched into a lower catch-up orbit on Mir. And as we prepared on flight day two, our particular role in the rendezvous got closer and closer to Mir. But we didn't really get the good video, of course, until we got within a thousand feet or so. This is looking out the ODS centerline up at the Mir as we're approaching from underneath. This is the Mir view, what they saw as they were looking down at the space shuttle Atlantis passing over the earth. We included a couple of views of the crew activities in the flight deck, Chilly at the AF station flying the vehicle, Rich assisting him, and I was bobbing in and out of the field of view there, working the computers and assisting in my particular role. This is a view of the Mir space station as we passed from across the terminator from sun lit portion of the planet to the backside. And it was very interesting to see that with the running lights, Mir was very visible and it was quite bright even on the dark side of the planet. As this process continued of the rendezvous and approach up the R-bar, got closer and closer to Mir. And again, this was sped up too. And part of that intent was to make it flow quicker in the movie, but an added side benefit is it makes the commander look even better because it looks like it's really going fast. But Chilly did a phenomenal job flying the space shuttle up to the Mir. And you can see, this is the end game here. This is where it all comes together. And hitting those critical docking parameters, the target, of course, is shown on the right on the split screen image. We really did get that jostle as we made contact and had the post-contact thrusting firing. And then I must confess to a little bit of relief in the cockpit once we reach that milestone, there Chilly's being congratulated by Rich and it's on to docked activities, Rich. We're giving a panorama of the Mir complex starting with the docking module here. And now you're looking through the aft cockpit. I'll refer back to the target you just saw. We confirmed after we docked that no flyout was required. Thank you, Malice. But it's a beautiful, this thing is, this Mir complex is really large and I have memories of standing back in the ODS, looking up through the tunnel and thinking that it was at least 300 feet up to the Mir complex. Here's a view of the initial hatch opening from the Russian side, of course. And you're going to see a couple of happy faces here between Yuri Aniforanko and Kevin Shilton. Tremendous relief once you get there and you join up and realize that it's an excellent place to be. There's some good work going on up there and felt like home for Shannon already. Neither one of those guys were happy. And of course, Shannon, she felt at home the minute she got there and they put her right to work. She was one of the experts in the transfer activities and it's no small part due to the preparation we had here. And here we're getting ready for the welcoming ceremony, one of the official PAO acts. Due to a small miscoordination, we had the flags in the wrong location. So you're going to see Yuri Ushchev bringing the American flag into the docking module base, or not the docking module, but the base block for the welcome ceremony. And then we're going to pass some gifts that we took up to them. What you'll see is some of the personal items that we gave to our Russian crewmates. They both have a love for children and the future of space exploration. So some of the gifts that we gave them were space books for their children and it brought tears to their eyes. And here you see the gift exchange. Some of the books bought right here in Space Center, Houston. Well, I think I need to pick up here. Right with transporters that you run. I think there's a rich and Rick taking off a docking ring from a gyrodine. We brought up a new one and brought back a used one. We also transferred nearly 1500 pounds of water. This is a byproduct of the shuttle's power system. So we removed iodine from our system and supplied minerals and biocide and then transferred these water bags to the Mir space station. This is going through the shuttle side. There's some empty food containers which we returned to Earth from the Mir station. And finally working our way to the docking module. There's temporary storage in the white mesh bags of food containers containing many of the supplies that will help Shannon and Yuri and Yuri in the coming months. We transferred nearly two tons of science hardware over and nearly one ton back. This is a COUR system used for navigation on the approach and docking for the Russian system that will be brought back and refurbished. We also needed to keep track of the items that went over to Mir and those that were returning back to Earth. So Chilly and I are making sure that we have all of the items in our inventory management system in order. The blue box on the left hand side is a refrigerator freezer in which we brought back urine, blood and saliva samples. The glove box in which Linda is working is where we carried on some of the technology development as well as fundamental biology for a joint effort between the U.S. and several European countries. Here are lintel seeds and the investigation here is for status site polarity. We had several experiments in biology. The middeck is where we had lunch with the Mir 21 crew on dock day. We went over for dinner in the base block of Mir to enjoy Russian food. Each night if we had a chance we sent mail messages by way of a laptop computer and you see Shannon doing just that back to her family. On three separate days we saw the comet. Many of you may have seen it here, Hakataki, in which it was very bright and Rich was the first to notice that and on subsequent days we kept track of the comet. Now the EBA activities. Linda? Well, Ron is helping Rich and I get suited up here in the airlock. We're getting pretty close to getting into our pre-breathed timeline and following that we get ready to go out the hatch. We had a lot of room inside because we had an airlock and a docking adapter and came out of the hatch on the docking adapter. Our first job was to install some clamps on the handrails to deploy the experiment packages later and then our task was to move to a camera to remove it on the docking module and this was used on STS 74 when they docked with Mir and then when they left the docking module there the camera was left there also. So one of our tasks was to remove it and bring it back to earth. And I took some of the smaller items back and here you see Rich he's translating with the camera itself which is rather large and he was being very careful of that as he shepherded it back to the tunnel adapter where he stowed it temporarily back inside until we were finished with the EBA. Here you see Linda and myself removing one of the four meep containers for installation into the under some clamps on the docking module. We tested out some new tools and equipment for use on the ultimate international space station, the rigid tether and the multiple use tether which we use to transport the the meeps to their work site and install them into the clamps. Here you're going to see one of those activities and then one of the funnest things that Linda and I had to do were the deployment of the meeps and you're going to see that here. It's so much easier to do up there you just give it a little flick and it flies around and I'm sure that this is real time instead of sped up but but tremendously finally designed hardware that worked well in flight and we can learn a lot from the folks at Langley and our own engineering director at here that helped design the hardware for this particular EBA. It all worked well and we deployed this one here is meep number four I believe. The the meep experiments are orbital debris sensors and passive samplers. Well this is my cue for my second come in after really a whirlwind and flurry of activity over several days we were all very very sad to get ready to depart the mere space station. This is the farewell ceremony and I think I can speak for the rest of the crew. Certainly for me it was the most emotion fulfilled moment that I'd had in orbit in two missions. Of course saying goodbye to Shannon there's a chilly given her a hug and wishing her well for her long stay up there until STS 79 goes back to pick her up. On undocked day we again were very busy on that day similarly to the docking day. We prepared configuration wise this orbiter and mere complex to separate and very shortly here we'll see that separation sequence and leading into the fly around. This is chilly waving goodbye to his buddies over there the mere twenty one crew including Shannon. The Russians were very kind to ship down this video which then came from soup to MCC and enabled us to put it in our crew movie in a very timely fashion. Separation here again sped up. We were as I mentioned before very sad to leave and wish we could have stayed longer and been up there with our friends. The separate the initial separation burn a couple of low Z pulses out to get going and. Establish the initial opening rate and as we continue to fly out we assumed a range of four hundred and fifty to five hundred and fifty feet targeted to conduct this fly around of the mirror which I was privileged to fly and it's been for me one of the most professionally rewarding things I've ever done but the same time in the background of my mind also very emotionally charged event. This video will share some of what we saw from on orbit which was just absolutely outstanding and flabbergasting really to see this orbiting complex out our windows and here in this particular case to see video shot from the mirror of America's greatest technology achievement ever a space shuttle in orbit doing what it does best. This is a view of the mere space station over the Great Barrier Reef right after we gave the KU antenna to calm to send TV down this is the first picture that came down to the ground and this particular view is as we mere passes through the horizon approaching the terminator and know it is not a model we saw it with our own eyes and that's what it was and it was outstandingly beautiful with the backlit view and something that I will always treasure in my mind. Now it's coming home time now and Ron did a bang up job shooting these scenes that little camcorder that he holds there is a self shot on the way down starts weighing zero at the start of re-entry and then it starts feeling like it weighs a ton on the way down so he did a great job shooting this. This is out the overhead windows were coming in through the re-entry and you can see the plasma trail behind the orbit there pulsates like that and literally lights the cockpit up and with flashes as you come down out the front window you just get a nice steady pink and orangeish glow as you go through the maximum heating and here we are in a roll reversal one of three that we did as we lined up for our approach at Edwards Air Force Base rather unique long range shot here where you can actually see the RCS jets firing in the tail of the shuttle as we decelerated through around Mach 2 approaching Edwards to keep help keep the nose pointed forward and I logged a night landing on this one because officially the sun hadn't come up but but it sure was a pretty time of day to land it was just the xenons were on but you really didn't need them you could see the ground just find and there wasn't hardly a breath of wind in the air it was real calm smooth skies and it just you know you knew what you were flying the space shuttle was responding just so beautifully it really really flew marvelously and was a joy to bring in for a landing. Rick go ahead and punched out the landing gear force on time and then the drag shoot and the timing was just right on that and cushioned the nose slapped down as as we came rolling down the runway for a stop and I think I'll quote Andy Allen from STS-75 there's there's no better feeling than that call wheel stop particularly when you you know you've done your job you've done the best you can and now it's it's over and it's time to turn turn the vehicle over to the folks at Kennedy to get it ready to start back through the same process all over again to go up and retrieve Shannon STS-79 if I look a little confused here at the end I was doing a nose count and came up one short but but I was assured that that was the right answer so everybody felt terrific after the flight and it was certainly good to get back home to family and friends and you all back here in Houston. We'll ask Rick to go ahead and narrate as they come up so please enjoy them. Thanks Joey of course our crew patched there and I might add Rich's son Brandon who's a seventh grader was largely responsible for the artwork and the concept for this patch and we really appreciate his artistic talents and what he contributed to to make the mission go and to me it's a significant or symbolic in the sense that we not only received great support from Johnson Space Center and every and Kennedy Space Center and everyone that supports the shuttle program but from our families as well and I know speaking for myself I could not have done my part in this mission without this loving support from my home my wife and children so I thank them as well. This is a view as we're approaching the Mir space station again Atlantis in all her orbital glory with the payload bay doors open there just this was one of the few times that I wished I could have stayed on board Mir for a long duration to see what the orbiter looked like in its entirety we were fortunate enough to get some views this is a view that we could see out of one of the living quarter portholes on board the Mir of our spaceship and it's kind of a strange feeling to make that translation across that interface and know that you're in another orbiting vehicle even though you're all tied together and look out the window and see this incredible flying machine out there and this is a view of the Soyuz is up in the upper left hand corner attached to the Kovant one in the baseball and some I think there's some solar arrays down there in the lower left hand corner but we include this particular view because of that beautiful effect you get with that rosy changing to gold and then finally changing to darkness as you pass from the day side of the planet into the night another view for those of you who are geography buffs you probably realized right away that in the field of view kind of in the center right is the Sinai Peninsula one of the things that I found particularly interesting from a photographic point of view is taking pictures of the earth while framing them up and trying to get a good composition with the lines and angles of the solar arrays and the space station itself it really is just as a space shuttle is a beautiful beautiful site on orbit the mirror is really quite striking and beautiful on orbit as well the colors are just incredible once you get up there in the vacuum and clarity of space a view on the fly around that's the northern tip of the south island of New Zealand just to the right of the mirror and of course the deep blue waters of the Pacific as well again a view of mirror at the horizon as we approach the terminator we wanted to wrap up our last few slides just to show the two crews the people that were very fortunate and blessed to be the flight crew members of this particular mission here's the mere 21 crew and of course Shannon is going to be in both of these pictures but we can't say enough good about the opportunities we've had is American astronauts to work with our cosmonaut colleagues in this case Yuri Anna Franco and Yuri Yusicev their professionals in every sense of the word and wonderful guys and just Shannon's gonna have a great time flying with them and working with them in this cooperative venture finally this is the STS 76 crew up until the point we made the official handover of Shannon to the to the mere 21 crew and we'll close with our patch