 Unfortunately, we have come to the time when we must summarize what we have done together. And again, unfortunately, come to the point where we speak to our friends of farewells and until we meet again, but this is natural because over 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 mere 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 content with what we have accomplished. We have good impressions, a large number of good results we hope are returning on the shuttle. This 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, to 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. And I would like to say first of all to the Russian people that they can be extremely proud of the men on this mere space station who could have asked for a better host or more professional cosmonaut. I've never, frankly, met two more professional people. The mere space station itself is an extremely nice laboratory for doing scientific work in space. It's a wonderful professional mission and I think we have accomplished 100% of the things that we came up here to do. And it's very sad to leave two not only fine cosmonauts but excellent friends that were made up here. I'd like to give 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 life must be in many cases. We've made the best of friends with Pablo and Anatoly. I have to say that we are bringing together two of the finest space-sparing 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. 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 NASA's past designed our current quality of life. So enjoy taking part. We want to share it with all of you and look forward to seeing you on Earth. This is a day of mixed feelings for me because on the one hand the shuttle is leaving and the friends that I've been with will be leaving and flying home. But on the other hand, I'll be staying here and starting what would be a new phase of my life doing probably what is one of the most unusual things that anybody could do in just the last part of the 20th century. So although they're leaving, now gives me the opportunity to start this adventure that I'm on. So it's time to get on with work and that's what I'm ready to do. This is Mark Carrot with the Houston Chronicle newspaper for Dr. Wolf. What do you anticipate for yourself physically as you return to Earth? Do you look forward to a quick readaptation 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? We have discussion that we've had up here. You know, when you're in space, 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, but I'll tell you more about it after we get back to Earth. This is Michelle Coyden with the Associated Press for Andy Thomas. Your new commander, Formir, 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? I don't have to say that I wish my Russian was better because I would like to have the spontaneous communication that helps you establish a working relationship. I think it will slow us down a bit, particularly initially, but I think after a while we'll learn a basis for communication which will be acceptable. And so I'm looking forward to doing that. I can assure that Space Station Mir is a great place to learn Russian. This is Michelle Coyden with the AP again for Commander Solovyev. Since the next commander of Mir did express concern about Andy Thomas's Russian skills, how would you say you rate his skills? Andy speaks very well in Russian. I expect that there may indeed be some problems. However, in the several days that we've worked together, Andy, I have not seen any problems. I'm telling you this without any reservation. You speak very well. And I think I agree with Dave Wolf that it's an excellent environment for the learning of a language. This is Seth Bornstein 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 precipitated the lowest periods, what they were like, and what precipitated the highest periods and what they were like? Well, the low periods I think resulted from very long work hours. The lack of being able to communicate, I'd say, on an intimate level, we can technically communicate quite well, but you get a little bit lonely for just playing talk. The high periods, of course, was the spacewalk, and going out with the most experienced spacewalker in the world for a private lesson, this was Anatoly's 16th spacewalk. 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 Halverson of Florida Today for the Mir24 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? No question about it. 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 and the crews. 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, CBS, 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 up there took a moment to remember that today or if you're too busy or what your thoughts might be. Actually, we took a moment to remember that last night. Bonnie Benbar, who was around during that period, well, like they say, everyone remembers when that happened. She brought it up to us and we took a moment to remember it last night. Bill Harwood, CBS, again, also for Anatoly Solovyev. Sir, I guess there's a half dozen spacewalks or EVA scheduled for the Mir25 crew coming up and several of those are listed as specter repair EVAs. 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 specter downstream? It's a very urgent work. Undoubtedly, it will require extensive expenditures of both material and physical effort on the part of the crew because it requires EVA and work inside the station. But to say briefly, it's a very urgent real work. It's a good practice for the possible repairs to be performed on the future space station. All of you understand Mir very well. It's a very fine detail. Right now we are about to build a new international space station. What impressions do you as specialists, might you have in terms of what you'd like to see in the 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 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. The new international station will be a great achievement of the two leading space faring nations and other countries. It will be a workplace and it will be a major achievement. Phase 1 shirts. We'd like to present these to you. Phase 1, remember with a stepping stone to the next place, the International Space Station and then hopefully on to Mars. For Anatoly. Thank you. Thank you, Dave. Are you with us on audio? I'd like to explain something here that's helped us a lot in space. There's a factory, a candy factory that's on the near the center part of Moscow. It's called the Red October Candy Factory and they've been sending us some of 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 some back. Indiana. It seems to have floated a lot of dinner tonight and one for you and it makes a big difference up here. It's one of the joys of space. Candy from the Wolf Factory in Attica, Indiana. So experience is just too much. You don't have the right words. That concludes our event. We copy all, Terry. Thanks for having us on board.