 Welcome to another day of your space odyssey. Join with me, we're ready to roll. I think you've been running at that level since you started, Ken. Atlantis Houston West. Two minutes into the test. Watching. And we'll log it when you're complete. Thank you, we'll give you a call. Plan on board. We're also getting a continuous air to ground one downlink. Sounds like VHF traffic. Atlantis Houston, planning shift is going off shift right now. You guys have come on, working really strong this morning. Thanks for that great test. We're turning you over to Bill and Story. Have a great day aboard Mir and aboard Atlantis, and we'll talk to you again next time. Chris, the ZOE would be the perfect place. Don't again, Yuri. Dear Yuri and Thomas, where's Thomas? We're very happy to be with you again after our long preparation in Houston and Moscow. Now, in orbit, we've already done a lot, in my opinion, to install the module on the station. And we've done everything, jointly and together, transferred many kilograms of cargo. Now, we'd like to officially and give you official and personal gifts. This is a symbolic plaque of the International Space Station and of Mir and Shuttle. There is emblems of NASA, the Russian Space Agency, ESA, and Canada. Greatly, great. Thank you very much, and thanks to the crew of the Shuttle. This is a very beautiful and memorable gift that will absolutely remind us of our joint work and our training for this flight. And we will treasure it with great gratitude. What do you think? We've worked the first phase of the International Space Station. As you see, the entire Shuttle crew are now wearing a football emblem. And I would like for us while we're working together to have a joint uniform. So here are some t-shirts for first phase. Well, this phase of the flight will continue. There's a second and third and then onward, of course. And we all hope that our friendship and cooperation between our peoples will develop with the construction of the International Space Station. This is an official documentation from NASA and the first phase. Special plaques have flown already on Mir 18, SDS-71. It's written, the crew of Mir 18, SDS-71, Mir 20, and so on. And here's the Atlantis. What we have are two plaques, one in English and one in Russian, commemorating the phase one US Russian program as like petals in a flower surrounding the phase one emblem are spaces for the crews of each of the flights on Mir and Shuttle who are participating in phase one, leading to accomplishing all the objectives that we need in order to build the International Space Station in phase two. We copy, Ken. And Houston is important as official commemorative gifts between programs and between nations are. We also think that it's very important to mark an occasion with personal gifts that have significance for the crews that are actually flying. And the crew of SDS-74 has a presentation item that we think will be significant for the crews of Mir now and in the future. Here we had the opportunity to both train officially and unofficially and socialize. And one of the social events was sitting and playing guitar together. And thinking of the long time that these gentlemen get to spend up in space, we thought what might be a useful gift to the hours where there isn't a lot of work to do in the evenings and on weekends is to have a guitar to play. And so we'd like to present to the Mir-20 crew and all the subsequent crews this guitar on behalf of the Mir-74 crew. It's Ochi Vintalesana guitar. So Ochi, this is a very interesting guitar. As you might already know, part of the advances or part of the environment we live in in space is things around by noisy fans, pumps, and mechanical devices that make normal acoustic instruments difficult to appreciate. This particular guitar is designed to operate with headphones that makes the solo experience of playing guitar one that can be enjoyed even in a noisy environment. We hope that the crew of Mir enjoys this and we'll find that this is a good memory of the fellowship that exists between space travelers of all countries. Instruments to have on board, not only the FIA and shuttle station, but also something for the future space station, where of course also, I hope will be some time for the crews to spend some spare time. And I think in view of this future events, we open now the area of space music. I would like to say several words in Russian. I see a part that you can't see on this screen. I'll just turn the guitar a little. This guitar can be folded in half even. And as you know, the station on which we are working now, the International Space Station in Mir is not the first one that has been working in orbit. And many things that are on this station were brought from the other station, which was also operating in space. And I'd like to say that the future station, which will be built in several years and will be hosting both Russian, American, German, and European other specialists from other nations, that this will also take its honored place in the musical orchestra that will be on the future station. Thank you very much. I'm forward to a concert soon in the future. And as I'm sure everybody and the crew and also in Houston is aware, the languages that we all speak from coming from different countries can sometimes be a problem we've had to learn to work together and overcome a language barrier. And we feel that one international language is the language of music. And we hope that will help bring us together as the station. One more thing for your crew. Not everyone on the space station or a space shuttle is musically talented enough to be able to play a musical instrument. So therefore, I brought some tape music for you to enjoy. It's country music. And country music. From Tejas, I think I saw a very large collection of tapes back in the core module. I hope you'll join and add this one to that collection. Thanks greatly to the crew for the cassette. We like country music. And it will remind us of the time when we were in Houston training. Thank you again. Dear friends, we would like to give you the crew of STS-74 Atlantis to give you a memento of our joint preparation flight. And this photograph was made before our flight, the starting, the launch committee, and who was going to determine who was the prime and backup crew. Here's a UN flag, which we'll give to you. And we would like this photograph to remind you of our joint flight. Here are our signatures and the seals of those who are on here. Thank you very much. Here is we prepared for you small packages with symbolic souvenirs so they would remind you of our joint flight with the crew of Mir. And I'll just show you what's inside. Here's a pendant of joint cooperation between Russia and NASA. We've also put our seals and signatures here. Another pendant. Last names are here with the shuttle. Also the emblems. We have a flag of the ESA. It's the absolutely latest flag, a medal that was issued by the Russian Space Agency, I think. Also regarding the cooperation of Russia and NASA in space, a small identification card for each member of the crew. It's a device that's issued by the government of Russia and is given so that life would be better and there would be more order. So we took a few extra of these documents and created these documents for you. And here are some lapel pins for you. And the absolutely most important, a memory of our joint work. And here are some radiograms and how we should work, what we should transfer things of this nature. So the same things in each package for all members of the crew. Yuri and Sergey and Thomas, thank you very much on behalf of the crew. And personally, I would like to say that this flight yesterday and today has been like a dream for me. I never thought two, three years ago that it would be possible to fly to station, to dock the shuttle. It was a fantasy. I am very grateful to you. And I would also like to thank all the people on the ground who are working to make it possible for us to have this historic flight. Thank you very much. I'd like to greet you and congratulate you with a successful conduct of this complex operation in orbit. For the second time, the American spacecraft has joined with the orbital complex mirror and now mounted a docking module, so that now all future flights will be able to dock with the mirror station. The orbital complex can now be spoken of as international. We are very pleased to see this assembled crew. There are present the entire geography of the world, Russia, United States, Canada, Europe. And we anticipate new crews. I'd like to greet the rookies and ask, how do you feel in orbit? Well, I would like to send my heartfelt greetings to all the crew members and to congratulate you all on this successful and very complicated operation in space. This is the first time that the US shuttle Atlantis has docked with the orbital mirror station. And it has brought a docking module, which would be used for further docking by shuttle with the mirror station, the orbital mirror station. I understand the last person. The last question deals with the state of mind of the rookies up here. We would like to answer this question. And first, thank you for your kind comments. And we are in agreement that our station is true progress for the future for all peoples. As concerns are the way we feel, we feel normal. We have conducted a great deal of preparatory work. Therefore, our feeling is good. I would like to hand the mic over. I think a very important, good effort. And we are happy to have this opportunity to conduct our work after we heard that the flights are continued. We had been. I anticipate the next flight in February. As I understand it, you are welcoming the fact that your stay on the mirror is being continued till February 96. Chris will now say something about his mood here in space. I'm also the first Canadian to have a chance to come aboard here. And the whole thing is just a thrill and an honor as a human being and as a Canadian to be able to participate in a mission like this one. Thank you very much for allowing me to come up and do this. And we're all working hard to make sure it's a successful mission. I congratulate you all with all my heart and wish you a good flight, successful flight, both to professionals and newcomers who have been in space. John Manley, I'm talking to you from Hamilton. Roberta Bondar and Julie Payette are watching you from the studio in Toronto. We wanted to say congratulations to you to the rest of the crew on behalf of all Canadians who are just thrilled with the success of the mission so far. Hello to Julie. We're having a tremendous time up here getting a lot of work done. And we're just as pleased as we can be with the success of all of the experiments and the installation of the docking module and the rendezvous and actual docking with me. It's been a marvelous experience and things are going very well. Chris, I watched the launch in Florida on Sunday morning. Julie was one of the spectators there with me. I think I suspect rather that she was even a little more envious than I was when you went off. But I can tell you that, for me, it was a very thrilling experience to hear the sound and to see the image of your launch. I'd just like to know what was going through your mind those seconds while we were watching you lift off from the Earth's gravity. Well, so you know the day before that we couldn't go because of the weather in Spain and Africa. But on that morning, on the Sunday morning, we really had a sense that it might happen. And when we came to five minutes and we got good weather everywhere, and we had a clearance to go with a smile on my face just started getting bigger and bigger, and that continued to grow the whole time through the launch. It was just a tremendous feeling to be actually doing something that I dreamed about for 30 years. So it was just a tremendous relief and rush of excitement and put a load on the body too. The last couple of minutes at 3 Gs, these guys will attest is not an easy thing to put up with. It really squishes you down. Well, I'll tell you that grins on Earth, as we stood around watching you, we're just as wide and just as excited. Chris, we're gonna use this link to pass a few questions on to you that the Discovery Channel has collected from young people across Canada. So I'm just gonna be a relay for some of the questions. The first one is from Melanie Hartness from Weber and Saskatchewan. She's asked this question, after training so hard and to be finally part of the first step of assembling the space station, would you want to live on the space station instead of Earth? I would jump at the chance to live on a space station. After seeing what Sergei, what the life that he has up here, the chance to see the entire Earth every 90 minutes, to do something that a lot of people dream about and very few people get to do, it would be just a tremendous experience. And of all the things to do with your life, what an amazing thing to be able to do. Tell us a little bit about the effect that that has on the human body being in space for a prolonged period of time. Sergei has been up for two months already. And as you can see, he looks very fit. They exercise a couple of hours a day while they're up here. It changes the body somewhat. The fluids don't pull in your legs due to gravity. So you end up with a fluid shift up your upper body and then you end up actually losing some fluids. So you lose mass in your legs. Also, as you can see, we can sit anywhere we want when we're in microgravity. So the whole sense of up and down changes. And it really doesn't matter which way is up. It just becomes arbitrary. And it's amazing how quick you adapt to that. But the body adapts very quickly. It's kind of surprising, really. You wouldn't think after millions of years of evolution there'd be any reason for the body to adapt to microgravity, but it adapts very well.