 I welcome everyone to what we enjoy doing most is sharing the experience of flying in space, especially with those that did so much work to make it all happen for us. As Mr. Avery said, this was a really successful flight, and I think we proved that we're ready to go on to International Space Station in cooperation with our Russian, European, and Japanese and Canadian partners and do even bigger and better things. I will introduce the crew, of course, and then we'll show you some slides in a video that highlight the mission. As I introduce the crew, the thought comes to mind that it's becoming more and more of a daunting task for the commander to make introductions with part of the crew leaving, being left on orbit, leaving the crew on the way up, and a new member of the crew joining us on the way down. As a matter of fact, on the way over here, in addition to those complications of who's on the crew when, we thought we'd lost Jerry this afternoon when his wife, Catherine, who was about to give birth, we thought on our way to the hospital, but I guess that's going to be a little later. We're looking forward to a new leninger in the NASA family here real shortly. I guess what we ought to do to introduce the crew is start with the first slide, which is the crew photo, and I will that way be able to introduce also those that aren't with us today. The crew, as you see it here, has a lot of background with the Phase 1 program. Eileen Collins, as our pilot, had made the first approach on Discovery STS-63, a couple of almost two and a half years ago now, I guess, and at that point in time, she was able to wave across the window, across space through the window at Elena Kondakova, who was on the mirror, and at the same time, Mike Foll was on board with Vladimir Titov on Discovery, so we have an ever-growing family here that is continuing to fly these missions. The two primary payloads that we call them, the precious payloads, were Jerry Leninger and Mike Foll as our Phase 1 crew members. Jerry completed a very long and rigorous program on board the mirror, and Mike arrived on mirror a beneficiary of a lot of the work that Jerry did, and so Mike has continued to carry out that program in fine fashion, as we're all watching with interest the progress they're making, recovering the mirror and bringing it back online. The MS-1 is Jean-François Clairvaux, who is from the European Space Agency, and he had also done some training in Russia as a backup for an eventual flight on mirror. Again, another connection from our crew to the cooperation that we've had with the Russians. Our two new flyers, Ed Lu and Carlos Noriega, Carlos was MS-2. He was our flight engineer and does a wonderful job at keeping the pilot and the commander out of trouble, I might add. And he comes from Peru, and his family moved to the United States when he was only five years old, and similarly Ed is of Chinese descent, his parents moved to the US right before he was born. So as you look at this group, you see a really international mix, representation from basically six different cultures, because we count Mike Foles' British background as a yet different culture from our own, but it's the kind of thing that I'm sure we're going to see on future international space station flights, and it was a pure pleasure for us to be able to work together in a group like this, because we were able to learn from each other, learn about each other's cultures, and move forward with new ideas for future space flights. The two folks that you don't see here are of course Vasilitsa Blayev and Sasha Luzukin, the Mir23 crew, who both Jerry and Mike have worked with, and Mike is continuing to work with. We consider them honorary members of our crew, and we really look forward to seeing them return to Earth here in September. This is a crew patch, and the most important thing on a crew patch are the names of the crew. You see here the eight people involved in this flight, the two front-seaters, Charlie and Eileen, and the two phase one long-duration astronauts, and the other mission specialists. It shows obviously it's a special flight in low Earth orbit. The sixth mission to Mir is symbolized by the six stars around the Mir in Cyrillic, which means Mir means peace, and also word in Russian. And the Chateau-Mir flights are part of phase one of the International Space Station program. That's why you have the phi, the Greek letter phi, with one star, which symbolizes the phase one program, also with the rising sun showing the early phase of the space station international program. Our launch occurred on May 15th at 4.07 in the morning, and it was right on time at the beginning of a seven-minute launch window. We had little to no problems during the launch countdown, and the SN itself was absolutely trouble-free. And from the bottom of my heart, I want to say again for the whole crew, thanks to all you folks here at JSC and the folks down at Kennedy Space Center that did such a wonderful job getting our orbit ready for flight. And because the orbiter was in such good shape during the whole mission, we had time to do the extra things that we had planned on doing before launch. This is a view of Mir from a far distant picture, and the reason we wanted to show this is the first time we saw Mir, it was a very small star, it looked like a star. Our main engine cutoff occurred in very low Earth orbit, approximately 100 miles. Well below Mir gave us time to catch up to Mir, and we did several burns over the course of the next two days. And flight day two, we prepared for the rendezvous, and on flight day three, we did the actual final phase of the rendezvous. You see the overhead window in the flight deck with Mir in the background, the station keeping. Mir is on the top of the overhead window, and you can see the handheld LiDAR, which is a manual laser pointing tool, which is used to have a very basic measurement of the range and range rate of the target, which is Mir, to confirm data from other sensors like the TCS or radar. The first good heat was about 16,000 feet, and that was a very important tool to ensure to the flying person, to Charlie, that all the automatic sensors we are working fine. This is a view about 400 feet away. You start to see, you can identify the different modules at the top. You see the Soyuz, and working your way clockwise. You see a specter in the base block. Below that is Covant One, and a progress. Worked your way, continue clockwise. You got Covant Two. Right in the center, you see the docking module where we would dock. Directly behind that is Cristal, which can't be seen, and then beyond on the far side of the node is Perota. This is the view we have, of course, as we're coming up the R-bar from beneath the station during the final part of the approach. You have to imagine that you're weightless for a minute and do a 180 flip here, because our view is actually, as if you were standing on your head, because the actual base block was at the top of our image, but in any event, the sense of direction is not really all that important in orbit, as far as whether you're upside down, left, right, or right side up. We have a view like this essentially after we've done a tail-forward maneuver to align ourselves coming up the R-bar, and as Carlos said, about 400 feet. From here on in, we're maintaining a vertical position beneath the station to keep the docking port of the orbiter lined up with the docking port of the mirror. This shows a little of the activity that goes on on the flight deck. Once we get into the manual phase, it gets very intense and very busy. I've got the go-rockets hat on there hoping that we're going to make it to the finals, but in spite of that, we had a lot of work going on around us. With Carlos, you can see looking over my shoulder, he was a quarterback of the whole operation, making sure that everyone was keeping up and synchronized with all the events in the checklist. We have essentially five people doing various things in sync to make this all work. Eileen was working the RPOP or the rendezvous proxops display for us so that we could see our trajectory relative to the mirror and make proper corrections. And Jean Francois, as you saw, was using the handheld laser looking out the window. Elena and Mike were talking to the mirror on the VHF radio, and Ed was doing an experiment called the OSVS, or the Orbiter Space Vision System, which simultaneously with the approach was taking camera data to research the ability to use cameras as a sensor for proximity operations. This is the view from in close through one of the cameras, and the system that Charlie just mentioned, the OSVS system, is a system which, if you see the three black dots, if you look at the orange thing in the middle of the thing, that 12 o'clock, 9 o'clock, and 3 o'clock are white squares with a black dot in the middle. And we had a system which was looking at these three dots to see if we could figure out our position relative to the mirror just based upon that. It's a system we'd like to use on the new space station, and this was a test of how well that type of system would work. Of course, right here in the middle is the docking target that we used to visually align. We visually aligned the orbiter and the mirror in the last 30 feet referencing this target. Well, we finally docked. One of the highlights of the mission, of course, is opening the hatch. It was a very emotional period. You see great grins here, but you should have seen the grin on Jerry's face when we actually got through to him. Actually, his grin was pretty big before we even opened the hatch just looking through the little window. This is a symbolic of the union up there and how well we work together. Well, as much fun as the approach was to fly and as intense as it is and as rewarding as it is to have it go so well, being able to join with our colleagues on the other side of the interface was really a pleasure. This is a little gift exchange during an international meal. We prepared some food to take representing the various cultures of the crew members to provide for the MIR crew and to give them a chance to relax. During that meal, we presented them with some gifts, one of which was a photo album that documented the training that both Vasily and Sasha had done with us, a history of their involvement in the Joint Phase 1 program. Here, Vasily has his album open to a page that is near and dear to me and that's a photograph that was taken in two places of Vasily and I, first at Baikonur where I was wearing his Russian Air Force uniform and then here in Houston when he came to train here and he was wearing my American Air Force uniform. So there was a little bit of a nice exchange for us and we included that in the photo album. Every day we had many press conferences on the board. Usually we spent this press conference in Space Station MIR but sometimes in Space Hub because Space Hub, we had double Space Hub. It was a very big module. It was a big free volume and you can see 10 people in this picture It's free for us. It was very comfortable for us in the Space Hub. The vast majority of our time was spent obviously working hard and doing the transfer operations and what we wanted to show you in this slide was a reflection of some of the things we did in the morning when our fax machine or we call it our tips machine sent up the daily activities and we can thank Greg Smith and Mike Schaub for all the great work they did on our flight plan. It was miles and miles long I think but we had to manage this paper every morning and cut it up and put it in our plan and it pretty much documented the activities that we would do that particular day. On the second day after looking we had international dinner. It was Jean-François's idea and that's why on the orbit we had food from China, France, America, Russia, Peru, different kinds of food. On this picture you can see chocolate. This chocolate was, or did, Eileen. It was shuttle chocolate. Over the months of training we'd gotten to be great friends and we still are. That's why we're all monitoring closely the activities up on me right now because they are good friends of our in addition to Mike Full. Here you see the two flight engineers or board engineers, Sasha, or Alexander the Lusikin but I know him as Sasha. He's a good friend of mine. As a matter of fact on that uniform right now he's got a little Peruvian flag that he wears up there for me. So good friend and this picture kind of shows it I think. One of the big things that we had to do was transfer a couple of thousand kilograms of equipment to the mirror or back from the mirror. And Jean-François and I were tasked with trying to keep track of what had already been transferred over and what needed to be transferred over or transferred back and what other room we had for carrying additional things over. And this is a picture of me and Jean-François going through the lists of equipment and checking off items that had already come back over from the mirror. Trying to get Mike oriented to the space station and let's see what we're looking at here. We're into Spectre as a matter of fact, showing Mike around and had about five days of overlap and it was very critical time just to get him used to his new home. He kept wanting to go and have tea with the crew and I kept saying get back over, I got to show you something. As a matter of fact, if I might add just for Jerry, he raised the notch one level up for us before we docked. He had sent us plans of what he would like to do for the transfer and I think it was a really well thought out plan that has put Mike in a very good status and that was that as the equipment came from the shuttle normally we would stow it temporarily in bags that it was transferred in in a place that was convenient and later after the shuttle left it would be up to the long duration crew member in this case Mike to find a place to put that stuff and in this case Jerry had an inventory plan already established so that while the crew was there, while the shuttle was still there he was able to not only transfer it over but Mike and Jerry were able to handle most of that equipment and find a place to stow it permanently and have it inventoried and film that inventory so that the inventory list could come back to earth and that had never been attempted before. It sounds easy to do but when you're talking hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of items that weigh up to 4,000 pounds like it said that's an awful daunting task yet Jerry was so organized that it went very, very smoothly and it left Mike with great status for picking up on his science mission. In base blocks the containers you see that Sasha has there are four food and after we eat the food out of it they double for trash containers and we usually put them on progress to re-enter the atmosphere and burn up. In this case we're actually able to bring some of those empty ones back on shuttle and also some with a little bit of our nicer trash back on shuttle also. You can see things are a bit congested and that's not an all unusual view. This is the node where the internal EVA will take place from should everything be checked out and clearances and things like that. If you see the red arrow down there that we put in place after the fire we decided it was a good idea for the shuttle crew members to be able to find a way back to shuttle in the case of poor visibility so that area or that arrow, the red arrow made out of velcro cloth basically marked the quick way back to the shuttle through Kristall. There's base block straight ahead and you can't see too well inside that but if you come out of base block oriented properly and you dive down that's specter over that way and so you see some of the ventilation duct is the large duct you see there and some of the cabling that had gone into specter and of course that had to be disconnected, the vent pulled through, the hatch cleared and then a cover was put on one of these flat covers. It's really not a hatch, it's a free-floating plug basically that was then put on over that module and the minute it came close to ceiling it was a pretty solid clamp down due to the differential air pressure. The future EVA we're looking at taking this more conical cover and remove a section of that and add some hermetically sealed pass-throughs to that section that Charlie's pointing out and then reconnect some cables that come from inside the module that originated the solar batteries, solar panels in English. Anything else Charlie? Go ahead. Did we cover all the modules? We could point out this should be parode up here, correct? And cavant 2 off this way and we already mentioned crystal down here and we're taking the picture, Eileen, you took it from inside the Soyuz. And I might also add this is a very wide-angle view here so you're getting a big distortion of the reality. This is kind of a spherical structure with all these hatches 90 degrees apart. This is a view of us, it's actually oriented sideways. It's of me jumping on Elena sitting on the wall actually next to the Biorack which is the thing at the bottom of the picture. You can see things sticking out at the bottom. That's actually the glove box where you put your hands into and work with biological experiments which we carried up. We carried about 11 different biological experiments which we did using this facility at the bottom. It included experiments on plants, white blood cells, single-filled animals and tadpoles of all things. You can realize how big is a space hub as Elena said. It was two modules put together. It was a very friendly module to operate. We had soft storage bags. You can see the gold bags at the bottom and we had also hard lockers for storage. What you can see here is what we used to call the space hub crew versus the orbiter crew because Elena and I spent more time in space hub than any other places in the complex. We even slept in space hub. That was very comfortable. That was a good module for both scientific experiments and also logistics transport. Although the main or mostly experiments we had were in the Biorack, we had a lot of other experiments. Here you see a representation of one. I'm actually using a video camera almost as a microscope videotaping the growth of some spores on a sample on a radiation experiment we had, RRMD. This is Steve, the space hub crew, working together on the samples of Biorack that were stored in a passive thermal control unit that could keep samples to minus four degrees for several weeks without any power just passively. We had a lot of mini transfer to do of those containers of the various experiments from a freezer to a refrigerator to a passive control thermal unit to the glove box or incubator. We spent about 40 hours crew time on orbit on these Biorack experiments. This is thinking about getting ready to go and leave the mirror, which was a very quiet affair for us. We scurried around as I remember. We did something that I thought was really new and nice prior to leaving. We of course had a little get together for a TV downlink with the control center for folks here on the ground. But we also asked to have an opportunity to speak with a lot of the controllers directly on the loops in the control center. And it's amazing how nice it is to have the opportunity to hear folks' voices when you're in space. Familiar voices, people that you've been working with that have put a lot of effort into this mission. So we had Helen Dutton, payload officer. We had Greg Smith. I'll probably forget all of them that get on the loops. But many people from the control center, the flight directors all get on the loops with us and said a few words. And it was really a pleasant experience for us. And it's just really nice to be able to hear the voices of the people that are putting so much work into an effort like this. But in any event, we had a little ceremony like that to say goodbye to the MIR crew, to say thanks to all the people on the ground that did so much great work to make such a successful flight. And then it got real quiet. And it was time to make sure Jerry got on the right side of the hatch. But I don't think that was a problem. Elena didn't want to leave. She wanted to stay with her friends on the MIR. And Mike was, of course, ready to get on with his work. So we finally got the hatch closed. And it was very, very quiet. And we were ready to get along with the undocking process. A view, basically another big fisheye view. But you can see Spectre there very well. Spectre is very good. Thanks, Charlie. Spectre is actually just, I think, the most beautiful, graceful-looking module. It's got these four solar panels, of which you can see two here. And the one that the progress collided with is the one opposite inboard. So it would be sticking out back that way. The one you see here is the equivalent solar panel. And the radiator is either the radiator you see here or one on the other side that got dented in during the collision. But it's a spectacular view in general. And these solar panels, for example, on Spectre are just made of gold metallic material. And they just glisten in the sun. And it's really a spectacular sight, just looking at the sprawling complex. Before we leave this slide, I wanted to make one other comment, a memory that was particularly special to me. On the night of Flight Day 7, we closed the hatch and we stayed docked while we slept. And then we undocked the morning of Flight Day 8. Well, that evening I was able to see, we were all able to see in the window, the overhead window out of the shuttle, which is where this photo was taken, into the window in the base block that Charlie's pointing to here, which was Sasha's room, Mike was in the window waving to us and the cosmonauts were in the window waving to us. And I thought that was pretty special, our last chance to say a silent goodbye. Next slide is on the undocking. We woke up the morning of Flight Day 8. We had very little time to brush our teeth and we had to get on with the undocking checklist. And one thing that was different about this undocking from the previous five shuttle mirror flights was that we did not do a fly around. We didn't get as many pretty pictures as we would have liked, but we were able to do a very successful test of the European Space Agency's Proxops system that they plan on using on their orbital transfer vehicle for International Space Station. And it involved a laser, the global positioning system, and some reflectors that you can see, actually they're very difficult to see here, but they're right around that docking ring. We flew straight down the radius vector towards the Earth for 3,300 feet and had a very successful test of that. Well, we'll take a quick moment to show you some views of the Earth. Each of us, of course, when we're on orbit, we like to look for where we came from. And this is my hometown right up here about where that cloud is. Hudson, Massachusetts. Cape Cod stands out like no other point on the Earth as far as ease of recognition. You have the Cape Cod Bay and Buzzards Bay, Martha's Vineyard Island and Nantat... Yeah, I've lost track of it. In any event, you've got Rhode Island, Boston, and the Cape and just a wonderful view of the state of Massachusetts. There was an evening when we flew over this same area late, well, it was probably actually three or four in the morning Houston time, and we could actually see it was so clear in the east half of the U.S. that we could see from just about the same position, looking back to the Southwest, we could see New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., all the way to the tip of Florida. The entire peninsula and the coastline was lit up, and you could see all the way the cities of Memphis, Atlanta, St. Louis, all the way back up towards Boston. And to have a clear night in the eastern half of the U.S. like that was a real treat. Michigan, if you spot it there, you kind of have to turn sideways, and you see the hand of Michigan. And Charlie, can you... Oh, laser, great. I won't keep up with you. Getting trouble in your home states here. There's Michigan here. You can see the handprint if you turn sideways. Everybody got that? Just like that. You lay your hand this way and you got Michigan. And that's the way all Michiganders talk. They all say, okay, you know, you go on your hand and you say, all right, you take the freeway up here and you go over to the Mackinac Bridge and then you're in the upper peninsula here. And Geography 101, of course, there's Lake Michigan, Chicago down in this area, Traverse City, beautiful spot, Mackinac Island as pretty as it gets, and Detroit's down in this area, Lake St. Clair connecting Lake Huron here. Lake Superior, one of the biggest lakes in the world up this way. This freshwater mass that you're looking at here, all the great lakes, is about, I guess, the second largest source of fresh water in the world, and it just stands out. And then you get down here to Lake Urie and Lake Ontario. So it's pretty spectacular. You got all the Canadian cities here, I guess about 8 million Canadians along the shores of the Great Lakes here. And this, again, is pretty unusual to have such clarity. And having been up 132 days, I would say that when shuttle was docked and during the return on shuttle, we had some of the best weather over the United States that I had seen the entire stay up there. Corsica, the most famous French island. As you can see, we could call it the thumbs up island because there is a finger pointing up. It's called the island of beauty. This is where Napoleon Bonaparte was born. This is where I met my wife. There is about 250,000 people living there. And this is kind of how I island, just one hour flight from Paris. And many French are going there every summer for the vacation. The population is multiplied by 10 about in the summertime because it's always clear like you see no clouds and there are a lot of little creeks that you can consider your private creek for bathing in the sea. Well, this picture is kind of special to me. Even though I grew up in California, I was born in Lima, Peru, and that's the town of Lima right in this area here. Typically, it's always clouded over, so they told me I probably wouldn't be able to get this shot. Nobody's been able to get it before. Additionally, all we had were night passes over Lima during our waking hour, so I actually have to stay up one night and take this picture just a little bit because it seemed like one hour after bedtime every day was when we passed over the west coast of Peru. But you can see from the coastline pretty quickly you get right into the Andes and the ground rises pretty steeply to the east. This is the island of Oahu in Hawaii. It looks nothing like a hand or fingers or anything like that. It's a beautiful place. I was lucky enough to get to live there for three years, along with Carlos, not with him. At different times, but he lived there too. This is the city of Honolulu right here. It's really one of the prettiest places on earth, I think. You can see the runway at the airport there, which is a big runway constructed out of coral, which they dug up off the beaches out here. I lived right about there. You can see my apartment if you look very carefully. There's a small airfield up here where I used to fly small airplanes off this coast, watch whales which would congregate along this coast here. This is Volga. Volga River enters the Caspian. This is Volga Delta. It's Caspian. Caspian is the world's largest island sea. The Volga, I think it's maybe the largest river in the whole world. The principle is the waterway of Russia. On the north part of Caspian, it's Ural, at the river. The dimension of Caspian is 70-150 miles from north to south and maybe 200 miles from west to east. On the Catan Island is one of the several volcanoes. This is Russian Kuril's island chain. On the Catan has two volcanoes, and one of them last erupted in 1952 years and other last erupted in 1938. Some of the most historically interesting places on earth, in my opinion, for us were the passes over the Mediterranean Sea. In this picture, we're looking west, and we see the islands of Greece. If you look closely to the north, actually it would be to the south. In this picture, you see Africa. We also have Turkey at the bottom and the sea Mamoru, which extends into the Black Sea. Off close to the horizon is Italy, but we can't see that very well because it's under clouds, as well as Yugoslavia. A couple of things that are interesting about Greece, if you remember from your history classes in grammar school, were the wars between Spartan and Sparta and Athens. I looked for where these cities are and Athens is right here. They were a seafaring civilization and Sparta was just a little bit farther down right in here and closed by land, and they were the land warriors. We had one pass over Greece at night and you could see a lot of small cities scattered all around the peninsula, but again, just looking down and the many passes that we had over this area as well is the Middle East are just mind-boggling when you think about all the history that has gone on on the earth below. This comet Halbach, which all of you I'm sure are familiar with, was getting farther and farther away from the sun and I'm not even sure if it's still visible now, but we were able to take a picture of it from orbit. During the time that we were docked, the orbiter was in attitude control called inertial attitude hold, which meant that we were relatively stable to the background stars and we took advantage of that opportunity to mount a camera just after sunset. The comet was in the northwest portion of the sky relative to the earth. This was an eight-second exposure. We took everything from a one-second exposure up to a 30-second exposure and this one came out the best and you can just barely see the second tail of the comet in this picture. A little bit of a structure of near is in the way and of course the earth, which was rotating below has come out a little bit smeared in this picture, but I think it's really special because you can see the earth's horizon or should I say the earth's higher levels of the atmosphere? Well, it was time to put everything back away for a deorbit prep and we got back in our LESs and prepared for deorbit. We were fortunate to be launched on time and landed almost on time. We had one rev delay to watch for the weather but we came in on the expected day to the Kennedy Space Center. We had a little bit of weather to deal with, as I mentioned, but nothing extraordinary and a great team that put Atlantis together for us. We hope we had brought it back in just as good a shape. It was amazing that this entire flight there were zero anomalies with Atlantis and it really speaks well of the whole NASA team. It is a pure pleasure to be able to fly a vehicle like this when it goes perfectly well as it did for us. I think we had maybe one transducer on entry that was kind of flipping a bit but other than that we can't really speak to anything in an anomaly fashion that went on throughout the whole flight and that's really a miracle piece of work by the whole team. Well at the deorbit we fired the own engines in the back to slow us down and drop us back down into the atmosphere and this picture was actually taken not during the deorbit burn for anyone who's thinking about it because when we do fire the engines for the deorbit burn the payload bay doors are closed and you can't see this. This picture was actually taken earlier and you can see it was actually taken during one of our rendezvous burns we were adjusting our orbit to catch up with the mirror taken at night and you can see that the glow from the engines actually makes the tail glow which was a pretty amazing sight out the back. And after nine days and a few hours on orbit we brought Atlantis back to the Kennedy Space Center and we had a nice day to bring it in for the landing. We learned a lot I think from the whole mission and from the landing as well. Since the landing Eileen and I have both had a chance to go out to Ames to work the vertical motion simulator and we had a couple of little things that were of interest for the landing one of which was a significant crosswind gust down below about 15, 16 feet before touchdown and interestingly enough the engineers out at Ames to duplicate that in the simulator so that we can show that kind of wind gust future cruise and it just was rewarding for us to be able to go out and see that in the simulator that something like that could duplicate nearly identical condition that we saw in flight. The orbiter behaved very well in that gust elected not to go chasing it we drifted about 30 feet left of the centerline put the wheels down and then after we brought the nose down we corrected back to the centerline and we brought Atlantis to a stop down there about 8,000 feet from the approach end and gave it back over to the STS-89 crew who's getting ready to go or 86 crew, sorry, who's getting ready to go do this all over again for us and continue them down. Charlie, can I interrupt one second? Yeah, go ahead. This is off the wall but I need the vote of the audience here. I was in space 132 days four hours one minute and my wife Catherine was waiting the whole time worrying if I was going to get back to the birth of our next child and she's heading into the hospital right about now so I'd like to excuse myself if possible but here you go. I think we can let him go for that. Thanks, Jerry. Well, with that let's go ahead and roll the video. There's another view of our patch and we're getting ready to go to the vehicle in the OPF we're putting on our LESs and getting ready to check out good pressure integrity in everybody's suits. Carlos is buttoned down with a visor down. There's Mike and he was relaxed and ready to go to space. Jean Francois was too. Elena joining us from Russia of course and very pleasant day for us to go out although it was 4.30 in the morning I know many of you probably went down to the Cape and had to stay up all night to see it. It was a real nice night for us and the weather was gorgeous and they tell us that we were visible almost to Miko. Our lift off are actually the countdown and the lift off were totally flawless from the cruise point of view. We just lit up the sky all the way up and down the Florida coast so we're told. That view in the corner is the view I had through the overhead window. I had a mirror in my hand that I could look out. You can actually see the VAB going by as we do the roll program. I like to talk about the feelings that you have during the launch. It's actually very much like the shuttle simulator. There's a lot of shaking and rockin' going on inside. You can see out the window flashes of light that sometimes can interrupt your vision if you look outside too much. Also the sound is like, to me it's like standing in a room that's on fire. It's just a very low level sound that's very similar to what you hear outside during a launch. Solid rocket booster separation and from this point on we're back to 1G as we slowly accelerate up to 3Gs and then main engine cut off. Next thing you know, we're in orbit. We've separated from the tank and we are taking photographs of the tank here crossing over the northern part of Africa. The post insertion main activity is to activate the experiments and here the space hub, the main cargo in the payload bay and we had to open three doors to access into space hub through a very long tunnel as you can see. The space hub was very clean and we spent few hours to set up the whole module for the experiments and also get ready for transfer ops. This is a neat picture of a rendezvous burn. I lost my hat there momentarily but we get a pretty good acceleration out of the Ohm's engine when we make our approach to the mirror. We burn several times. Down at the bottom you can barely see the station. We had a very low beta angle they call it which is the angle between the sun and our orbit plane and that meant that the mirror was actually going to eclipse the sun force. You see it's getting dark in the orbiter and there goes the sun and there's the mirror and to see that on orbit was amazing because the mirror actually glows white because the sun that you can't see is still bouncing off of our payload bay doors and illuminating the mirror. There's a view that Jerry was able to see of us approaching and then again our centerline camera view during the approach. This step by step we get a little bit closer and of course our task is to inch in gradually according to a given timeline and everything works so well for us that we had a very docile contact and you can see the sun was just about to come up and rise over the Ohm's pod as we contacted so this is all silhouetted here but we make a very soft contact there and almost no oscillations after capture. Everything went smoothly on the pressure check so we had the opportunity to open the hatch right away and get a good view of our colleagues on the other side. Here in this shot you'll see what you weren't able to see in the still picture earlier which is the true feeling of joy and celebration we had. Lane brought in traditional black bread, salt and tea. There's Vasili first time here. You'll see Jerry for the first time and just look at that smile on his face and the obvious need for a haircut. They hadn't had a vacuum cleaner for a while so we helped fix them up there so they can get their haircut and we proceeded on in to do our first press conference in the base block and here's Eileen's attempt to confuse all children throughout the world as to how we really move around in space as she swims through the mirror. Well we continued ahead of our first press conference which was shortly thereafter followed by eating of the bread and actually Jerry had his pretzels that he'd been wanting. And as Elena already mentioned the second evening on the docked phase we had an international meal with food from all the countries represented by the crew. We had food from Russia, America, Peru, China we had of course food from France with foie gras and confit. Here goat cheese and we had barbecue from... We had barbecue from Pity's that de-aggrated and for three hours the ground never caught us and we had a very good time. Here you see a chocolate gift from Issa with the logo of the different partners in the International Space Station program. All kinds of food down here on the table. As you can see the chocolate shuttles flying around. Eileen thinks that some of them may be stuck somewhere behind panels there. It was really neat that this was all spontaneous too to have that kind of a good time with our colleagues up there. This is some of the handover operations between Mike and Jerry. As Jerry and Mike discuss the equipment that's being brought over and here we are with the commander of the station, Vasili trying to figure out which items we need to bring over next back over to the space app. Looks like Vasili is stealing something there but that's actually his checklist he's taken with him back to the mirror. Carlos brushing his hair in the mirror. Hair management is very important on orbit. This is the mirror base block. You can see the table where we had dinner the other night. There's Mike having his lunch and Sasha and Vasili. You can see how much equipment is around inside there and it's actually one of the more spacious modules and some of the other modules is quite a bit more stuff. This is Sasha's bedroom. You can see that he has a very nice view out his window. There's a shuttle parked out there today. These beautiful historic views that I was telling you about earlier. You can see the Red Sea, the Gulf of Suez, the Gulf of Acaba, the Sinai Peninsula. Of course we're docked to a mirror at this point. Here's the Nile River down at the bottom. You can see the Nile Delta. As we move on further to the east, this is the Boulder River Delta that we're flying over Asia at this point. Again, you can see the docking module on the left side that was added on STS-74 about a year and a half ago. In this view, up from the docking module, you see Kristal and then Specter to the left, Covant 2 to the right, base module at the top. Well, all good things had to come to an end. We worked very well together on board. We worked so efficiently we had time to have meals together and then we had to say goodbye. This was a much more somber occasion we'd had on docking day. It was actually fairly quiet until we decided, well, it's time to start saying goodbye and working our way out the door. There was no great rush to do this and luckily the ground was able to give us all the time we wanted to get this done. Here we see the hatch closing. As I mentioned earlier, this was quite a sad time for us and it was very quiet as opposed to the very noisy time when we had docked. Here's the undocking. You can see the shuttle jets firing separation. The springs in the docking mechanism give us the initial push-off from Mir and approximately just a few feet, two feet after we separated from Mir, I fired several jets to give us a separating down the R-bar. We had extra fuel because Charlie had done such a great job on the rendezvous. We had extra fuel to spend during the separation, so we had reached quite a high separation rate to increase the efficiency of the undocking and the tests that we were doing. View from Mir that was downlinked of the shuttle. The Mir had great views of us because they were looking down at the earth, but all we had was a view of Mir against the dark skies and we looked up. After Undock, it was time to resume more intense activity on the scientific experiments here. You saw Barrack and I had an eye where all scheduled for those about 10 different experiments using the Barrack facility incubators and glovebox. You see here Elena working on the osteomars, these experiments on bone cells. We had also... The glovebox was used for experiments where some dangerous chemicals were used. Here are some tadpoles that were developing their neurovestibular systems in COG and we are not swimming as the same tadpoles grown on earth. This is an experiment to look at the motion of liquids inside rotating tanks, which you may ask why is that important. The reason is because fuel tanks on rotating satellites often have a problem where the fuel inside them starts to rotate in a different direction than the rest of the satellite, which makes the whole satellite wobble, which is not something that satellite designers like to have on their very expensive satellites. We had a set of rotating tanks here and you can see the fluid inside there rotating back and forth around inside that tank. You can see it's rotating in a different direction. This is a view taken from the inside. We also had several experiments where we grew protein crystals. That's a new field that we've actually flown many times now on the orbiter and it stands to give us some great benefits in the future as we develop custom medicines and for diseases that are challenged to the community right now. This is the output from our fax machine that I was talking about earlier. We wanted to illustrate how long this really is extended all the way down the tunnel into the Spacehab. View from the Spacehab, this is our meal time. You can see the Spacehab is extremely spacious and it's a very comfortable place for astronauts to work, to live and work. Jerry's showing us some of the fresh tortillas that we had packed that lasted the whole mission. This is not a bubble, this is actually a blob of water that Jean Francois had made from a straw in one of his drinks. We did our own liquid motion experiment informally as a crew as we watched the behavior of these things in space. One of the things we have to watch out for is the degradation to our bodies when we're on orbit because we're not really fully utilizing all our muscles. We had lots of opportunity to exercise either on our ergometer or cycle or on a treadmill. Jerry probably logged more miles on orbit than at least anybody that I know. But he provided a lot of feedback to the community here on this treadmill that we're developing for station. Another form of exercise here, the mass tunnel motion. Actually right here, oh yes, that's right. Almost missed it going off the top of the screen right now is Lima. Once again the ground was able to get this shot for us one night while we were sleeping. Indic view right now is the Nazca Desert where you have those great lines in the sand out there. We couldn't see them from on orbit. This again is Hawaii. That's the big island up at the top. You can see the string of islands stretching down below. Maui, Molokai. We had a very nice night pass over Italy. There's the boot of Italy and Sicily and the moon glint on the Mediterranean scene between Sicily and Italy. In our orbital altitude we see about 16 sunrises and sunsets a day. The earth is on top in this view. And it looks like a sunset and I guess in reverse it could be a sunrise. And it's time to come home. This is a clip of our deorbit crap. It's been suited up just about two hours or so before the deorbit burn. It's a very hectic time. There's many things to do. The payload bay doors are coming closed. It's a major part of the events in coming home because once the doors are closed you lose the radiator cooling. This is a view from the middeck. We're intentionally showing this upside down because many times you need to work upside down in space and do it effectively. On the flight deck you see Jean Francois in the middle. There's Charlie reviewing procedures for the entry and myself. We had Ed Lu and the mission specialist number one seat. Carlos is in the MS2 seat. He's our prime flight engineer. The entry you can see out my windows, the heating. We reach almost 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit on the outside as we re-enter Mach 25 and slow down. You can see the jets fire, plasma develops as you know around the orbiter and we can see the reflection of that out the overhead windows. We're back close to KSC here getting ready to approach subsonic and you can see the jets pulsing there as we approach the Kennedy Space Center. This is a view from the ground of us coming around the hack and you'll see here again in a minute my view out the front window of the head-up display and we've got airspeed information and altitude information on the scales on the left and right as well as the position of the runway outlined for me so that when we come down through the clouds here at about 8,000 feet we'll break through the clouds and you'll see that the runway is in fact exactly in that position showing just how precise the orbiter's navigation system is and you'll continue to see our view down through the lower right corner here as the orbiter starts its preflare and coming in to 300 feet, Eileen puts the gear down. You saw the gear word flash there. Coming into the overrun here with the gear down at about 50 feet or so you can see with this view the wind gust that catches us right here at about 20 feet and starts moving us to the left and we just put the right wheel down first to arrest the drift and once we got it on the runway it handled quite nicely. So little surprises come from time to time but the orbiter is a wonderful machine that handles that kind of thing just fine. We rolled it down the centerline stripe and Jerry was hooting and hollering all the way home, of course and we were happy to bring him home and that's the story of STS-84. Thank you very much.