 I think, as you all can see, we're gathered here around the table here in the base block of Mir, and I think we're demonstrating international friendship and cooperation here aboard an international space complex, Shuttle and Mir, demonstrating what we can do in the future as we proceed to international space station. Russian crews, American crews, and future international crews all working together. Shannon, as you're ending your your mission, wondering what just what your private thoughts are and feelings as this ceremony is about to happen this morning and you're finally really going to be coming home, and John just the opposite for you, what your thoughts are, what's going through your mind as your mission is about to truly begin. I also feel just a little sad, this has been my home for six months, and I've had a great time here, but obviously I'm very very anxious to go back to my real home back in Houston, Texas with my family, and also I'm just very very grateful that I've had this opportunity to experience the international community, it was just great, and I want you know my bosses for letting me do this, and I'd also like to thank all the people on the ground that gave such tremendous tremendous support as to make it such a pleasant experience for me, and I'd also like to thank Yuri and Yuri and also Valery and Sasha, because you know a person doesn't live by themselves, you live in a group, and working together just was a great time. I've been training to do this mission for the last two years, I'm really looking forward to it. Valery and Sasha are going to be a great crew to work with. The 79 crew with Bill have been fantastic to me since I returned to Houston and have supported me a lot during the transfer ops, getting all the equipment over here to do the job, and Shannon I give a big thank you too for having given me such a good handover to work on the mirror space station to make my life a little bit easier in the next four and a half months, so those are my thoughts. John how do you think you'll be feeling tomorrow as you watch Atlantis pull away? This evening? Actually I'm kind of looking forward to it, because we've been so busy with two control centers controlling us that I'm looking forward to the pace slowing down a little bit, which I think it will. So I'll probably have some other feelings as well, but I don't know what those are yet, but certainly it'll be very pretty as the Atlantis pulls away. A few weeks before your flight you expressed some concern about your need to develop a rapport with your Russian host, and I just wondered if you could elaborate a little bit on how that's transformed since you've docked. Do you feel like you've made up some ground? Do you feel you'll be comfortable and able to work productively? Absolutely. What you're referring to is a crew change which occurred with the Russians in August prior to their launch, and it's correct that I had not trained with Valaria and Sasha, but I had known them at Star City. I would say that what I told you two weeks before launch I've already learned that these two people are fantastic. They're going out of their way to help me and help me get acquainted with the mirror and the things we have to do, and any time I have any questions they really help me. So a big kudo to Valaria and Sasha for all their help. For Commander Reedy, I'm wondering what your reaction was right after launch after the APU shut off on its own, and whether you have any concerns about landing on two APUs? Well, we'd already had an engine cutoff, so we were already in space, and everything that the APUs were supposed to accomplish on asset was already completed. So we knew that the mission control team would be working this real hard, but the space shuttle was designed with an awful lot of redundancy, and it can fly just fine on two APUs and in a dire emergency, even one. So I don't think we're really concerned at all. Terry Wilkett takes care of the APUs and the hydraulics, and we've got procedures that we've practiced time and time again over the years that we can use. I don't think we're really concerned. John, the International Space Station is facing some fairly significant problems in terms of schedule and funding in Russia. There is issues with command and control. They're all going to be debated this week in an incremental design review, and I'm wondering, you're on the world's only space station right now, and I'm just wondering if you could say something to the negotiators who are meeting in Houston to debate some of these issues, what you might say to get the process moving along a little better perhaps? That's a pretty big question, and I'm probably the wrong person to answer, but since you asked me, I'll try to give you an opinion. Without a doubt, the Russians have learned a lot about space stations. They at first had to salute an orbit, and now the mirror has been in orbit for close to 11 years, and I'm sure having talked with some of my colleagues that we as an international community need a new space station because after a vehicle has been in orbit for a long time, the parts are starting to deteriorate. Without a doubt, this experience on Mirschuttle has been very positive, and it just shows how much more we can do with the International Space Station, so we really need to press forward, construct the new International Space Station, and do it together with the Russians and the Europeans and the Japanese and all the people in the world so as to provide new science information that can help improve life for everybody on the planet. I'm just wondering if during your six months up there, if you looked out the window at night when you didn't have anything to do, if you ever reflected on the philosophical significance of whatever you want to call it of being a pioneer or a space explorer, do you have thoughts like that or those the kind of things that you think about from time to time? I would just look out the window and I would think, wow, who would have ever dreamed two years ago that I would be here? Who would have dreamed ten years ago that I would have been here? I just thought about how strange my is and how many twists and turns there is in life. I just thought they're just really neat. The Commander Corzun, would you please tell us what you will be thinking about when the hatch is closed and your friend Shannon Lucid disappears behind the shuttle? Well, when the hatch closes and Shannon stays on shuttle, we will be sad. We're already kind of sad because not only are we saying goodbye to a colleague but to a very fine person, an outstanding professional, an outstanding woman, a very practical person. It has been reminding, having a woman on board has reminded us of a kind of a household arrangement. It's been very good having her on board. We will be somewhat sad with her return. We understand that she wants to go back and see her family and we will be remembering her. We're at the same time that we'll be feeling sad about Shannon. However, we will also be feeling sad about the farewell with the crew of Atlantis because we have had a very productive session of work here and these are our feelings. Atlantis Mirror, Houston. We've got a good view. They're in the base spot. Welcome aboard the Shuttle Mirror Complex, Atlanta. And mirror joined together and both orbit two crews together demonstrating cooperation and the future in space an international space station that will build together. I'd like to say a few words in Russian to our Russian colleagues, to our Russian hosts who've been so hospitable and who've worked so hard together with us. Dear friends, prior to closing the hatch, I would like on behalf of the Atlantis crew to say thank you for your hospitality and for Shannon. We know that John will work well and exceed all of our expectations. We appreciate not only their hospitality but also the way they made Shannon a part of their crew and how well we think that John is going to do when he starts. And what this mission is about is ends and beginnings and conflicting emotions I think for all of us here. Beginnings because it begins John's flight with the Frigati with Valerie and Sasha. And endings because it ends Shannon's flight, record settings right here having concluded six months on orbit. I think all of us when the hatch closes are probably going to have also conflicting emotions. We'd obviously like to stay and every time we go past the window and see the mirror, it's just an awesome sight. And every time we float down one of the passageways into the hatch and see one of our Russian colleagues working together with a member of our crew, it's just that it's really a joy to behold. I'd say something in response to something that he already said. Prior to closing the hatch, we would like to thank our American colleagues for the wonderful work that they have performed on orbit for the well-planned work. And I hope that our cooperation between Russia and the United States in space will serve well for all of mankind. Folks, I'd like to thank you for having blown up to us and that we have done, performed such an interesting and good quantity of work that everything has turned out so well. And I think that this work of ours, this joint work will in the future, looking toward the future, be an example of benefit to all of mankind. And Bill, as you so aptly stated, even in the greatest of successes, there can be few moments of sadness. We're checking out all the different things. We've got to make sure the crosshairs are installed, two docking lights are installed. We're waiting for the Russians to complete their side of it, which is checking that the seal is nice and clean on their side. Taking hands here with Valery and Sasha, kind of a bittersweet moment, because I'll tell you they're such great guys and they did such a terrific job working with us here and all the transfer and experiment ops. Hatch closing, you can see the docking cross there is reinstalled.