 We concur, and Jim, if you wouldn't mind, we'd like to leave the OCAC off for about another 30 minutes. TV there on the Air Flight Deck. And Scott, to let you know, we do have TV on the Air Flight Deck. And Scott, a couple of things. We are anticipating the PAO event to be televised from the core module. And it will be on air to ground 2. Very comfy up there. It's great to see you. Dave Wolf, this question just came to me from your mother. She says she's not convinced you're going to be able to celebrate the Jewish holidays correctly. Are you going to be able to do that? Did you bring what you need to do that? We need coming up on the progress in December. A friend of mine has sent it. So I'll be able to celebrate, and even without the items, we can do it in mind. All right. That's great. Well, let me start then with Michael Folle. Mike, we have heard from other astronauts who have lived on the Mir that there have been various physical and mental effects that occur to your body and to your mind when the level of carbon dioxide aboard Mir gets higher than you would like. Have you noticed any physical degradation at any time during your mission, or any mental haziness, or any mental problems at all while you've been on Mir? The answer to that is no. And as far as carbon dioxide goes on Space Station Mir, I have not had any. I've noticed it almost every day while I have been tending my plants that I've been growing in the greenhouse. I'm aware of the level as far as the detectors are measuring it, and it has always been fairly low, while within the limits that have been set for Space Station Mir habitability. So, I'm not quite sure how that report arose. Occasionally, the carbon dioxide goes higher when we have had to use a different carbon dioxide scrubbing system, but it has always been within the limits prescribed for the Space Station. No kidding. I've seen your family. They are delightful, and they are looking forward to seeing you when you get back. If you will, pass the baton over to Dave Wolf. Dave, you trained, I think, for just about everything before you traveled to Mir. Have you been surprised by anything since you've been there? Walked in. This place looked like one of those radio shops in New York City. There's so much gear everywhere, and it's just a playground of equipment and cameras and recorders. How much can actually be here? It's a very alive, living place. Jim, hold on to the mic for a minute. I'd like you, if you will, to preview tomorrow's spacewalk for us. What's going to happen? What's the best that can happen out of that spacewalk? What they intend to do is to recover some experiments that were deployed. Mission STS-76, I think, they are experiments that have been looking at the environment of space, a very harsh environment with cosmic rays and particles impacting different surfaces. They will bring those experiments back, and we will analyze them down on the ground. It's similar to what we learned on the Long-Ration Explosion Facility Satellite several years ago. They also will deploy some Russian hardware that was sent up with us. They'll take it to the outside of the station that will help Anatoly and his folks to attempt to fix the leak on Spectre, and if that's successful, then they can recover the capabilities in there. One thing that we learned, our agency from the Russians, is to be flexible. The hardware was sent to us only a couple of weeks before launch, and I was very happy that we were able to incorporate it into the flight and bring the hardware up here, and we brought lots of different kinds of Russian hardware just in case that doesn't fix the problem. Some of the other equipment that the Russians have sent may help to fix the problem. The first question to you. We know what type of discussions there were regarding the Mir station on Earth and the joint mission. What was your assessment of the condition of the Mir station and the complications associated with the general condition of it? Could you please give us your opinion? And this is to the Mir crew, the Russian members. I think it is a good question, and we return to it often. I think that the best decision was made to continue the expedition first, and not only just using Russian resources, but also to enlist the NASA specialists in this effort. We, in our next mission, have David Wolf, who will be performing a science program set forth by NASA, and of course we will have a great deal of work to perform in recovering portions of the station. Of course we cannot absolutely sharply resolve operation and repair questions in the science program because who has ever operated such a station over such a period of time? It has been 12 years that we have been exploiting engineering work by people in space. This is also a test, and if we were to throw this over on half way, then it wouldn't make sense. And I think this is very well understood both here and in Russia. So that is why Atlantis is next to us right now and why the NASA crew is working together with us, and we are all hoping that we will obtain good results from it all. I can add to the ads of my commander that undoubtedly the condition of the station is a lot better than it was one and a half, two months ago when we have almost brought it to a very high reliability of onboard systems. We also have a great deal of margin for our onboard systems. They are operating stably and reliably and the decision that was made was absolutely correct to continue the expedition and the flight. My gratitude to all those who fought for this decision. A great thank you to the commander, to Mr. Weatherby that is here. We are happy to see them and all subsequent shuttles that are planned. I would like to compliment the Russian space agency and the space community for its resourcefulness. First of all this is a very beautiful space station which I had the pleasure of seeing a couple of years ago when we flew close by. I am very happy to be onboard the beautiful space station Mir. It's incredibly resourceful inside. There are many ways to fix things. There are many ways to do scientific experiments. I am very impressed with the equipment that the Russians sent to us to bring up to the space station to help to fix the leak. We still don't know where the leak is and so they sent equipment of various different kinds in order to find the leak and help to stop the leak and I was very impressed with the quickness and the resourcefulness that they used to send those materials, the various different kinds of materials over to us to launch just before we came up to the space station which I am very impressed with and I am glad I am here. I would like to ask a question to Dave Wolf. First of all his impressions of the station. He has already acquired some experience and has exchanged some opinions with Michael Foll, his first impressions. How does he feel on the station? This is a question for Dave Wolf. What is your first impression of the first good days on the station? And we believe that you completed handover with Michael and please tell about your first impression on the station. Very positive. I feel myself very positive. This is a wonderful station, a wonderful crew, Pavel and Anatoly and there is no feeling. I feel very secure and I feel very good. I feel better. I will go ahead and send you the picture now from the base block. Okay we are ready. Now that is a good picture. Yeah and we did see that you zoomed out that lost focus. I assume Scott is using manual focus and not autofocus. And Michael Foll staying with you as you know the issue of mere safety has become an important issue in Congress right now and Representative Sensenbrenner, Republican of Wisconsin did not want David Wolf to be left behind when the shuttle leaves later this week. Who do you answer those concerns? You who have been there through these very difficult four months. Positive things to say about those concerns. What I mean is I appreciate the Senate's concern. I think the interest in safety, I think the very open discussion that the Senate and congressional interest has provoked it but NASA and in Russia has been very helpful. I think there has been progress as a result of all of this scrutiny by Congress. However I always have felt safe here because behind us is a spacecraft called Soyuz and the Soyuz in any event can allow us to leave the station in a real emergency. The problems of power management, too much condensation, the things that you have seen reported, they are real problems that we have to deal with but they are not life threatening. They can make your life a little uncomfortable and if they went on for a long time your life could become miserable but we generally surpass these things and put them to the side. Michael, give us a sense of some of the experiments or what you have learned from the collision for example that make these risks especially worth it. The collision and I can't say I'll ever choose to do that one again. The whole point in the most big endeavours and this is a great endeavour between our countries, Russia and America and doing this international program, you are going to have accidents and the strength in this program is how you overcome the unexpected problems not in how you execute all the things that you plan for and I think the way we're overcoming this is really what we should be proud of. And Commander, you've brought a whole new computer or the parts to make a new computer for the mirror, is that right? Right here, Mike is going to lift it up and show it. This is a new guidance control computer for the mirror which hopefully will help keep their attitude without losing their attitude. David Wolf, tell me what your goals are for the next month. What key experiments are you going to be working on? Business is to get the laboratory in full working order. We're well along the way. I wish you could see it. It's a wonderful microgravity laboratory. We're working with three-dimensional tissue cultures the last few days where we are able to grow three-dimensional tissues which will help us learn the principles for tissue engineering and are useful for our cancer research programs and a whole slew of other experiments. Dear friends, we are happy to reach you from on board the mirror orbital complex. And the docked Atlantis shuttle. Soon the people of Earth will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first artificial Earth specialist. Right now we have on board a large crew. We have Commander Jim Weatherby who's the commander of the Atlantis crew who brought his craft. Very beautifully and very well docked with us in the manual mode. I'd also like to say a few words. I greet you with the holiday. I saw Sputnik when I was small. I am therefore very happy to have this possibility opportunity. These are great days that must excite everyone. Forty years ago we had a new word. Sputnik today called it an artificial Earth satellite. And every person could hear the signals from space, the short radio beeps, but they meant very much for each person on Earth. We opened a new era and undoubtedly all people who participated in this project can be proud. And together with them we are happy that the great epoch of space has begun starting on that day. Thanks to that small Sputnik today we have large volumes inhabited by astronauts and cosmonauts. We have crafts such as Atlantis. And today we wish to greet all the people who started this great enterprise. Health, happiness, great success. We know that the labor of many people who work on something remains unnoticed. But we astronauts and cosmonauts understand this very well. And we are today talking to these people a great thanks to them for their great labor that was the basis of our work and which would not be possible otherwise. Thank you very much. Health to you, happiness to you personally, to your families and great successes. To our common cause, the opening, the exploration of space. Houston for Wendy. I know you're in the middle of your checks. One other thing that's been brought up is that in the Cold Start procedure in flight supplement 8-16 of the orbitops checklist, in step one you powered off the PGSC in the expansion chassis and then in step three you powered them back up. Apparently there is a documented problem with doing that without waiting for a couple of minutes. On occasion when a PGSC is powered up immediately after being powered down it doesn't power back up. And if everything else checks out we would like to suggest trying it again but waiting two minutes between powering down and powering back up. Two minutes delay and it looks like the breakout box has a problem with some still trying to troubleshoot. Copy.