 to General Smith flying over Qatar at this point, be part of the Air Force especially in this 50th anniversary year and proud of the work that you're doing there. Lieutenant Colonel Eileen Collins aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis currently docked with Mir and I'd just like to thank all of you for the great work that you're doing to defend our country. And we're proud of you and what you're doing. We're also proud to be part of the Air Force and happy to celebrate this 50th anniversary. So keep up your good work and we're thinking about you up here on the Shuttle Atlantis. As you deploy back home, you probably won't get quite the same view of the Earth that we do. We appreciate the vastness of our globe. Of course we get together these days with our improvements in communication, how much better our relationships are with people around the world. Here on the Mir crew that represent many different nationalities, we have a Frenchman aboard the crew of Atlantis. They're making their first flight, one who was born in Peru, another who is part of the Shuttle crew. We also have a Russian woman, Elena Kondakova, who is on an exchange with us. And it's just a wonderful thing like this come together and I can tell you most assuredly that the work that the Air Force has done over the last 50 years has made something like this happen. You folks over there in Qatar keeping up the work that you do, keeping up the tradition, great with the Air Force. You've made missions like ours in orbit probably get better from here. We salute you guys. Happy 50th anniversary to everybody in the Air Force, especially to you that are deployed. All those others that are deployed around the world, great work and hope to see you soon when we're back on the ground together in our home country, the USA. Safety please. Safety here is always a concern as it is on any space vehicle and we are doing our utmost to keep things safe here. The Russians have done an outstanding job recovering from more than usual number of failures. You can see we're all doing just fine here and we're enjoying our time working with our colleagues. Jerry's ready to come home, Mike's ready to take over. As for micrometeoride hits, nothing while we've been in space here during our stay. Yes, I'd like to ask Jerry Leninger what's the most interesting weather phenomena he saw in his four months in space and what do you think the rocket's chances against the jazz are? I guess just watching some tropical storms, I can't really pick out one in particular. And also some sea currents and looking at sun glint and the different patterns and swirls on the ocean, in the middle of the ocean, along islands, things like that are always amazing. I'll say go rockets and I think the rockets have a good chance of winning at all, although I haven't watched a single game because I've been up here since January. Yes, I was wondering if while you're staying long term in orbit, if you can detect the effects of solar flares or solar radiation, either on yourself or on the motion of the vehicle in orbit? It's been quite noticeable this last trip. Every time I've been on, this is my first flight, I have noticed flashes at night when I'm sleeping in my field of vision. And those are caused by very, very high speed particles, mostly from the cosmic ray background radiation. But also during solar flares you get these light trails in your visual field. You're just looking at basically darkness, of course, as you pull asleep, and you'll see these little flashes and different points of your peripheral vision. Well, recently on this flight, I think, and the other fascist mentioned this to me as well, that there's a lot of activity going on right now. And I think Joe mentioned it a bit. And so we're actually seeing trails in our visual field, almost like meatish trails. And I tried to move my head around here and it changed the orientation of the trails. I was pretty sure it was localized to a stream coming through the spacecraft. Are you more or less spiritual than when you first went into space, now? I think the same way as everybody else who has been to space. You enrich yourself because you're so far from Earth, you begin to love it even more. And then when you look in the window, you stop thinking about all the borders, about conflicts on Earth, why the Earth is one. And when you look, it's so little, we have a very thin layer of atmosphere which protects us from radiation, from the sun. And you begin to forget about small, earthly problems and you start thinking about different things. And I think the answer could be given in any language around the world from anyone who flies up here. We all feel pretty much the same way. Hello from the Space Station Mirror and the Space Shuttle Atlantis. For all of you who are viewing the IMAX from Mission to Mirror for the first time, we welcome you and we share with you the thrill of a great mission with our Russian colleagues in space. I'm Commander Charlie Pickard of the SDS-84 crew and we are fortunate enough to be docked right now on board the Space Station Mirror with the Mirror 23 crew. And we're in the process of continuing the mission that you're about to watch on the IMAX Theater. It's a tremendous opportunity for us. We'd like to connect with you as you have the opportunity to share our joys here in space. And we are fortunate enough to be bringing to you an injured one from space after his stay on board the Mirror and leaving nightfall as his replacement. What you're seeing is continuing today. As we speak to you, as you sit there ready to watch the IMAX, we are continuing to fly in orbit with our colleagues from Russia.