 Mayor Houston in celebration of your superb rendezvous and docking yesterday. Good morning. It's your birthday tonight. Thank you very much. Plant is Houston for Bakes. We have KU for the next, oh, 20 minutes or so. So it might be a good time to bring it down. Okay. This is going to be very similar to what happened yesterday. Basically, it's looking like we're not getting any dovetail data out of meter 6. So what we'd like to have done is on incubator A plate 700, remove meter 6 with 22 degrees C and reinsert immediately in the same position. Report the status back to MCC and then close the door on incubator A. Been removed and replaced in incubator A. We copy. Thanks. 11B, starting step two at this time. Houston, Marsha, of your in-cabin photos, 133, and of kids set, 265. That's great. The guys have put that up on them. Thank you very much. Okay, perfect. Point one. Point one, your approach is perfect. Roger. Capture. Rosie, free drift. I've got a flashing ring of line on and off, John. I've got ring of line on and off. They've settled 50, 50, 50. PCT's off. Damping is on. Counting to a minute. Don't wait until the amp is off. No, I'm counting to a minute. That's fine. Nice job, babe. Beautiful, babe. Thank you, Gary. Beautiful. Which one do you want? Everyone. 35 seconds. Damping is off. Coming up, look at how long it's been. Katie, today marks the 122nd consecutive day in space for U.S. astronaut John Blaha. But his long stay will soon be over. That's because his ride back home has arrived at the Russian space station, along with his replacement, Dr. Jerry Leninger. Both astronauts are joined this morning by shuttle commander Michael Baker and the crews of both the Space Shuttle Atlantis and of Mir. Good morning, everyone. Mr. Blaha, let me start with you. You have been in space for 122 consecutive days. How anxious are you to get your feet back on solid ground? Mr. Blaha, let's start with you. You are in space for 122 days. How do you feel? We've exercised a lot and we've had a great mission, so I feel great. The shuttle is here and I know I'm going to give my grandson and my daughter and my two sons, so I'm looking forward to that now. Can I ask you this? You will be performing a spacewalk as part of your four months aboard Mir. How anxious are you about that event? In the course of four months on board the Mir station, you will be making your way out. How do you feel about that? I'm not too anxious about it. I've been trained real well over in Russia. I've gone through American training in doing spacewalks and so I'm really looking forward to doing it and that's going to be one of the highlights of my stay up here on Mir. John, when you land next week, you will have spent 128 days in space. As you reflect on this mission, what's the most important lesson you've learned about long-duration spaceflight and working with the Russians? Let me say, over something that President Clinton did four years ago when he came into office was absolutely fantastic. I was to take two great space programs. One from Russia and one from the United States where for 35 years we had gone our separate ways and we had both had great space programs and a competition. And he got together with the Russian leadership and they decided together to bring these two great countries, America and Russia together and to do something where we can help each other. They have Space Station Mir, which is a fantastic space station. We have the Space Shuttle, which is a fantastic vehicle to transport people and things to the Mir and take them back down to the Earth. They have a progress resupply vehicle. They have a space guy on the upper on, a fellow who's capsule at the end of this vehicle which we plan on the International Space Station to use as our emergency crew return vehicle. So what we're accomplishing in this phase with the Mir and the Shuttle is we're learning how to operate together the Russians and Americans in space on a joint International Space Station. And coincidentally with this, we are building a new space station. And so we're just getting a head start on how to work together in space. And in my view, this mission which we have just thrown is the third in a series that have now been thrown and Jerry here is starting the fourth one. We are learning how to work together, the Russians and the Americans and that is absolutely incredible and a fantastic benefit to every all of the six billion human beings living on planet Earth. Thanks. And a question for Mir Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri. John Blaha has been replaced aboard Mir by Jerry Leninger, of course. And I'm wondering what your advice is to Jerry Leninger on how to make the best of his stay aboard the Mir station. Over. A question for Valeria. John Blaha will be replaced by Leninger on the orbit. What is your advice for Jerry? How best to get on board the station and adapt? I think that the best way, the best advice is to listen to John Blaha's advice which they have been doing for the last two days. And we haven't seen them much. John has spent a good flight and he understands all the problems about the station and he has learned to live and work here. And he also understands the problems which Jerry will encounter. Even better than we do. And he will be a better person to ask for advice. And we will help him adapt. I want to mic Baker real quick. Commander, you made that docking with Mir looked pretty easy the other night. And I'm wondering how valuable these joint missions are as a stepping stone to building the International Space Station. I have a question for Commander Baker. Your docking was great. It was a great job. I wonder how important this experience is for the future space station? I think the end valuable, what you said yesterday was the result of a lot of teamwork that got us to a nice smooth docking. And of course that teamwork would not only my crew but with the crew on board Mir. And I'm a believable step towards the International Space Station which is one that we have to make in order to get to a viable International Space Station.