 with music to honor both good morning. Atlantis system we're on board with you. At now, of Atlantis approaching the Mir space station in the final phase of the docking in which Commander Mike Baker navigated Atlantis manually from the aft flight deck of the orbiter to an on-time docking with the Russian outpost. He wrote on the computer, I'll show you. Look at the photos. All right. Don't tell me. Hey, we had operators, so to speak. John, we see you bright and clear down here in Houston. Nice to see your smile and face. I've seen you bright and clear, and they're glad to see you. Oh, General, we did John, we see you over here. Well, it's nice to see you guys. I saw you coming as a shining star for quite a while off the board engineer, Linda. And then as soon as daylight hit, I saw you, and I watched you come in most of the way, either from here or from Cavanthu's aluminum otter. Doing the mizzing. We're looking forward to grabbing you, John. John's good, Jerry. How long are y'all still opening the loop? First, some final checks, it's a 15-minute check, and about seven more minutes more into that. OK. Tell me when you've had enough here, because I have something else I can do. And this view through the orbiter docking system window, looking in to the docking module of the mirror, showing US astronaut John Blaha on the left, Commander Valerie Corzun on the right. On air to ground one. Copy. We were just trying to comply with the request from Moscow. We're going to be taking down the relay so that we can do it as planned on air to ground two. Should you just? OK, then we'll wait for your, or you already gave us the good open ODF hatch. Miss Houston, you have a go to open the hatch. Loud and clear. Good lighting. Ah, it's greenish, right? No, it's our Moscow time. No, but look, it's Moscow time, it's 9.41 now. How many people? More than the people. It was great, and we really appreciate you pushing down the button on the BIP Smooth. The sound is real good to get also. John, hello back from everybody in Houston. We're doing great. We're real happy to see all of you together in the docking module. Happy, just was really good. You all tell you what, this is kind of the international space station called Mir, and shuttle's coming up here and docking and bringing stuff in people, and then shuttle's leaving and taking stuff back down. That's really fantastic. We are truly in the space station business. And Atlantis Mir Houston, where? With the camera going into the central note of Mir. Hey, we hear you, and can you hear me, Chris? Loud and clear, Jerry. How's home look? Home looks great, it looks fantastic. John looks good, everybody looks good. Happy, ate some bread already. Tastes delicious, gonna be a good life. Jerry, since you have the camera and the microphone, any commentary you wanna give us, we'd be happy to listen to. I'm trying to catch up to Jeff. Looks like we made it to the node, and I'm tending lots of cables at this time. The rough's right up and down. I see modules, and they all look great. I'm trying to look all around. Jeff is turning into base black, so I see the U.S. flag flying. And it looks like they really prepared things for us. See Valyrie up ahead. Bakes already made it in. I think John Blah is bringing up the rear so that everyone doesn't navigate, make a long turn early on here. Thank you. You want some kind of American drink? You want some Russian? There's a great drink. I'll pull that up for somebody real quick. Thanks, are you used to? I thought you ought to be. Right, of course, you're going to have this face all full here. I mean, well, you know what it is. We've been busy all day. I'm starving. There's the topical fish. You can't eat it. But you look at it. I'm glad you saw it. Oh, okay. So, it's Guzie, right? Brazilian, but no of them got due. I just see it. Vashik Guzie is not there. You see, Tim, then I'll tell you about it, right? Tim, we brought him. He engineer him. To all the workers and engineers, to all the scientists, all our friends, and families for the huge amount of work and support. Once again, happy new year. Frantha, just watching that. I know what that view looks like. It's a unique and gorgeous sight. You're our crew. Thank you. Lemon, grape. Oh, that's what he likes. Excellent. Thank you. Thank you, Michael. Thank you, Philip. 100. Perfect. Space station for the Atlantis. It's beautiful picture through our windows. Thanks, Eric, for you and for American people and for Michael Baker. Thanks. Where's your big jamblaja? Well, I said it, but it certainly was great. I was looking at the boardings here. I opened this window right over here this morning and picked up the shuttle about eight miles away. It was a shining star. It got bigger and bigger. Then, of course, the sun came up and bam, you saw the shuttle and it was quite a beautiful sight. It was fantastic. Didn't believe, though, that we were going to have this gathering until that loop opened. Too many things to go on until then. See everybody. This is Sergei. Hi, Sergei. How are you? Thanks. Congratulations on your arrival at the station. Thank you. This is my new home. Yes, yes. How do you like it? Very, very, very beautiful. It's a shuttle and it's great inside. Good, good. Sergei, and now, to the newlyweds of today's meeting. Yes. To the commanders. Good day. Good day.