 Excellent, Mern, Atlantis. Yeah, we appreciated the KU peak. It was vivid down here, too. Floating into view in this live television picture from the flight deck of Atlantis, Commander Jim Weatherby, now in his fourth flight into space. Weatherby's last mission more than two years ago, aboard Discovery on the STS-63 mission, was the first rendezvous with the Mir space station in which Weatherby guided Discovery to within 37 feet of the Mir in a practice, a dress rehearsal, if you will, for the eventual initial docking of the shuttle to the Mir two months or several months later by Commander Hoot Gibson. There is pilot Mike Bloomfield about to make his way down into the mid-deck of Atlantis as the astronauts continue to set up equipment in preparation for the day's activities. We got all seven of us down yesterday when we had all the equipment down there for recovery after a great launch and a very short flight day one to stow everything, it was amazing. The troops here did a great job, it was an incredible ride. He did a great job, he had a couple of launch pad, which didn't amount to much, but it does cause us to identify the failures and deciding what to do about it, which was basically nothing because Atlantis is such a great ship. It turned out they were just ducer problems and the work he saw a couple of inches that we wanted to, so we're on our way to Mir, which we should be there by tomorrow to get set up for the running boot tomorrow. Work as a team tomorrow, everyone coordinated and the processing of the vehicle. I'd like to echo what Jim said, thanks to all the great troops that made all this possible. It was really the greatest ride of my life, a real e-ticket ride, and we're all very busy on our first flight day, but things are really coming together for the crew. And I'd just like to point out in this picture that too short, Lawrence is really taller than I am in space. I guess everybody always wants to know are you nervous on the launch pad? And probably enough, we're busy enough or thinking about enough that we're not usually, but in the last 15, 30 seconds, you start thinking about it and Scott and Bob, already up here, what about these guys that are just incredibly all pro at this and this is what professional astronauts are all about is pulling this off safely because when those solids go, start gimbling on the ground and the vehicle starts shaking around and you know there's a lot of moving parts here under G in the suit and I just thought about those guys up there and guys are just the best there are and you should see them up here. It was pretty impressive, the launch, the most impressive thing is it started out dark as we're sitting on the pad, but all the way up hill, it was basically daylight and the fire behind us pushing us up in and right at SRB set, you can see the SRBs come off and it's a very, very impressive show. I hope it looked just as neat on the ground and it's great to be up here with a great crew that are making life easy for me. One new experience for me on my fourth flight, this is the first time I've had the double space have module and I did get to float down the tunnel past the volumes that were going to dock with me and it's a pretty long way so it was awfully fun floating down there, the length of the tunnel. We hope to have more of these short visits with you where we get everybody up on camera and thanks a lot, it's time for us to get back to work. Dr. David Wolfe, I think it would be an understatement to say that the whole world is watching and is very concerned about you going aboard the Mir. Are you the least bit concerned about going on Mir? I always take space flight seriously and I'm concerned as I would be in any other space flight, but the Mir is in excellent condition to my mind and I'm looking forward to being over there. I noticed from your resume that you're a stunt pilot. How would this mission compare being on Mir with your stunt piloting experiences? Starts, I do aerobatics and which are, I don't consider that particularly dangerous as long as you do it carefully and don't cross the line and that's how I plan to conduct this mission also in a conservative fashion and we'll do it very safely. Commander Lawrence, besides dropping off David Wolfe and picking up Michael Foll, you're delivering some much needed supplies to the Mir including a new computer and drinking water. Atlantis is supposed to dock with Mir tomorrow. What happens if the Mir's computer goes out before the shuttle docks with it? Going off to the commander since he's been training for that scenario right up until launch. Okay, go ahead. I'll also say that we do have a long tunnel between our living quarters here and the space hab and I do stunts going down there in between what I'm trying to get from one place to another. We love to do rolls and flips as we're translating. That's where we do our stunts in between modules. If they lose their computer before we dock we will separate it for a safe distance away and allow them to reboot the computer. They've been successful in doing that. They've practiced that technique over the past couple of weeks and they are very good at rebooting it now and getting it back up to speed. Mir will regain control capability and then we will dock maybe the next day. If they lose it in close, we can continue the rendezvous and the docking manually and Scott and Mike just match the rates that we have with the Mir and then I continue to dock and Volodic continues to take ranging measurements with a laser gun that's similar to a police laser for ranging information. So either way, if it doesn't fail, we'll have a successful docking hopefully. If it does, then they can reboot it. Commander Lawrence, give us an idea of some of the supplies that you're gonna be carrying up to Mir. In addition to computer for the Mir and water for the Mir, we're taking over a gyrodion which will also improve the motion control system. We're also taking over a great deal of scientific hardware that David will need to complete his mission. Their experiments are in a wide range of disciplines. You will be doing some experiments that will help us better understand how the human body functions in weightlessness over long periods of time, specifically studying the loss of calcium which is very important because it's very applicable to patients who are bedridden for a long period of time. We're also gonna continue a series of protein crystal growth experiments. We have a handful of experiments that we will be transferring once we docked and then we also have a very interesting experiment. In fact, David has participated in this field for many years. We are gonna be growing some tissues on board, some cancer tissues that we hope in the long run will help us better understand that disease and find a cure for it. So there's a great, great number of experiments that are going over an even larger amount of hardware for MIR and other, of course, food and personal equipment for Dave, but we're gonna be very, very busy transferring about 7,000 pounds of equipment. David Wolf, do you anticipate doing space walks while you're there trying to find the leak in the MIR? I sure would like to. We have trained extensively for both a group of scientific space walks and to do repair work in various scenarios, but we'll have to watch that as it unfolds. Of course, we have Pavel and Anna Tolle who are up there in extremely capable cosmonauts, so I'll be happy to help them from inside also. Do you think that the problems with the MIR have been blown out of proportion? Well, none of the minds of those of us working in the space program both the Americans and the Russians because we don't think that they're out of proportion. We don't think that they're big failures. Some of them, of course, were. The fire was very dangerous for about several minutes, but once it was taken care of, then there is no more danger and the decompression, of course, was a short-term event that after they isolated the leak within about three minutes doing a great job as a crew, then the danger has passed and so we go about our business to try to fix problems and ensure that they don't happen again. We don't dwell on the failures other than to make sure that we do everything we can to make sure that they don't happen again and we improve our redundancy in the future design of the International Space Station. They may be blown out of proportion in other people's minds, but those of us working in the program don't really see it that way. Okay, Bill, we're ready. In fact, in case you guys are wondering what these big blocks are floating around here, these are pieces of the argometer, which we're kind of in the process of setting up while we're doing other things. Hey, copy Dave, we're two minutes to the ZOE and we'll pick you back up at 1833. Now, having gotten that out of the way, let's see, what we see, it looks like you have is the balanced unbalanced. You got a free-flowing cable coming out of one end. Now is one of the ends at the other end of the cable connected to the PDIP? It's then connected back to a white cable to the one says, the open one says TVIP video cable and the other one is a downlink balanced, unbalanced TV video cable. And Dave, do you know, have you located the actual SSV box itself? Yeah, that's a completely separate box. It's got a number of LEDs on it. It should be powered. It's got a DC utility power cable or a PGSE power cable that goes into it. The other cable to that box also comes out of the PDIP panel, out of the J107 port. Pat Peresewski on the left side in the foreground of the camera closest to the camera and Vladimir Titov sitting on the right side, cockpit closest to the camera, like Bloomfield in the pilot seat up on the right and I'm in the left side. You can see the checklists in front with the xenon lamps illuminating a portion of Mike's checklist, of course the three CRTs. I think we've already had the access arm retract and here comes main engine ignition and then six seconds later you'll see SRB ignition. The light show and the violence as we go uphill. I don't recall, I don't remember it being this much vibration because we're concentrating, of course, on engine parameters in the roll program, et cetera. A sensor that we had on the fuel cell, staying on this flight where we had first-stage guidance for steering. As you can see, a light show out the front windows as we get higher into the center atmosphere that gets eliminated in front of us and you see that out the window at pretty much like daytime. One G vertical acceleration at lift-off builds to about three Gs after two minutes or indication we looked at that briefly. The light show that you see here, it's pretty incredible. Of each solid that pushes the solid rocket boosters away from the vehicle so that we can continue to accelerate uphill using the fuel and the external tank and the three main engine options in the Atlantic Ocean, picked up with ships and refurbished after SRB set and raise our visors. As we approach Mach 25, Mike is concentrating more and more on the engines and there's main engine cutoff and you see we instantly decelerate to zero times before some gravity and we're immediately weightless. Then a few seconds, the external tank drops off of the vehicle and it drops into the ocean and there are the jets firing and the pyrotechnics that separate the external tank. We are traveling at orbital speed in our overdue from the jets and as the jets fire for attitude control, you can see them, the light bouncing off of the haze that's around us and it flashes like radiation into the space flight business on its first flight with the two failures right off the launch pad which were relatively minor but yet the master alarm rings and it gets your attention. Right at external tank separation, he had his third failure, the jet on the left side of the vehicle, the third manifold that is pointed in the down direction that helps the tail go up if we fire that jet, failed. Question and warning system correctly and propellant from the vehicle out through the main engines and that takes a couple of minutes after main engine cutoff and it is slightly propulsive even though the propellant is not ignited or on fire as it comes out of the vehicle, it is mass flow and it also wants to cause the vehicle to change its attitude or pitch a little bit and so the jets are firing here and you see them again flashing every time the jet fires relative to the earth but we don't think about that at all especially if we're not looking out the window and seeing the earth.