 At this time, the ICE team is at the pad on the mobile launcher platform conducting their final inspections of the vehicle, looking for any indications of potential ICE build-ups following the tanking of the 500,000 gallons or so of cryogenic reactants. This is shuttle launch control at T-minus 3 hours and holding with just about 10 minutes remaining in our hold at this time. It's about six minutes after midnight eastern time and we have live pictures of our crew for mission STS-84 in their suit-up room. Our mission commander Charles Precourt is on his third flight having served as mission specialist of STS-55 and then as pilot of STS-71. That was the first space shuttle mission to dock with the Russian space station and now he'll serve as commander of this the sixth mission to dock with the space station mirror. He is a colonel in the Air Force and next to him of course is our pilot, Eileen Collins. She is preparing for her second shuttle mission. She has logged over 4,000 hours in various aircraft and she was selected as an astronaut in 1990 and first flew aboard mission STS-63 in 1995 as the first female to pilot the space shuttle. This again will be her second piloting mission. The crew members are being assisted with their launch and entry suits by suit technicians from KSC and JSC. Edward Liu is preparing for his first mission into space and on the other side of the room, another one of our mission specialists preparing for his first flight, Carlos Noriega. Michael Foll, this is a special mission for him. He's flown three times before but on this particular flight of course he will be staying on board the mirror space station. Elena Kondakova, a Russian cosmonaut making her first trip into space aboard the shuttle. However she has spent nearly half a year in orbit aboard the space station mirror. Kondakova represents the Russian space agency. She was selected as a cosmonaut in 1989. And John Francois-Claire Voix is preparing for his flight today. This will be his second mission aboard the space shuttle. Again the crew waving and making the final goodbyes to employees at Kennedy Space Center. Mission commander Charlie Precourt with pilot Eileen Collins, John Francois-Claire Voix, Carlos Noriega, Edward Liu, Elena Kondakova and Michael Foll. These launch pads are about four miles from the vehicle assembly building and over the next few minutes engineers will be making final checks of the sound suppression water tank. They will be verifying that the tank is topped off to proper levels. This particular tank holds about 300,000 gallons of water and on command just a few seconds before liftoff. The tank is completely emptied as water flows through the sound suppression system onto the mobile launcher platform deck at a rate of about 100,000 gallons every 10 seconds. In addition no other technical issues are being addressed by the management team at this time. The engineers in the firing room are manning their consoles and maintaining a close watch on all aspects of the vehicle. Again no problems being discussed. Here we are at 12.35 a.m. eastern time and everything continues to look good for a launch in just under four hours. This picture is view is a shot taken from the 195 foot level. The crew has arrived on this level and they'll be taking turns getting into the vehicle. Of course their next step is to cross the orbiter access arm on this level that leads over to the vehicle. The orbiter access arm of course can support the weight of all the crew but they'll be taking their time as only one crew member can enter the vehicle at a time. Again everything is progressing smoothly at this point in the count. There are no concerns. Weather is going to be no issue for us and no technical issues are being addressed at this time. Managers and engineers in the firing room are relaxed and prepared to allow the vehicle to perform. Jim the MMP is working no issues here cleared to launch. Copy that. At Atlantis everything has come together so we're ready to go. You guys have a good flight. Good mission. We'll see you back here and Saturday a week. Best copies into the whole team to international partners around the world are ready to go and we thanks for all your hard work. At MPD you cleared to launch. Copy. And we're at T-minus nine minutes and counting and the ground launch sequencer has been initiated. NASA test director John Guidi is about to call for the transmittal of stored pre-launch commands as Atlantis is less than nine minutes away from launch. On a mission to the mere space station to retrieve astronaut Jerry Leninger who has been in space now for the past four months. And the orbiter access arm is now being retracted away from the vehicle. This is the walkway used by the crew to gain entry into and out of the orbiter. And it can be returned to position within seconds if need be. ATC PLT three grade topics. OK. Next the three main engines will be gimbled as a final test before launch. PLT verified. And the gaseous oxygen vent hood is being slowly retracted away from the top of the external tank. Everything looks good and we're cleared for launch today. No problems are being reported from the vehicle or the crew. And flight to ATC. Close and launch advisors and initiators to slow. T-minus two minutes and counting. On your M&S on flight. There are copies to the whole NASA team and to our partners around the world. T-minus fifteen. Eleven. Ten. Nine. Eight. Seven. We have a go for main engines to start. Four. Three. Two. One. We have booster ignition and liftoff of this space shuttle Atlantis. Maintaining America's constant presence in space. Houston now controlling the side of Atlantis. Ah, yes. We're just developing a program. Roger. Echoing the words of Eric Gagarin on his launch thirty six years ago. Commander Charlie Preport puts Atlantis into the roll. Heads down wings level for the eight and a half minute ride to orbit. Mike Foll headed to the mere space station. The throttle up call acknowledged by Commander Charlie Preport on the flight deck of Atlantis. Joined by pilot Eileen Collins flight engineer Carlos Noriega and mission specialist Jean-François Clairvois. Down on the mid-deck mission specialist Ed Lu, Elena Kondakova and Mike Foll beginning four months in space. One minute forty seconds into the flight Atlantis traveling at twenty three hundred miles per hour. Already seventeen miles down range from the launch site. Twenty miles in altitude. Fifteen seconds away from solid rocket booster separation. That will be commanded by the general purpose computers through the master events controller on board. Booster officer confirms a good solid rocket booster separation. Guidance is converging on all three main engines. Now gently stirring Atlantis for a precise keyhole in space for main engine cutoff. Booster officer confirms main engine cutoff. We'll go for the ET photo DTO. After that. I'm going to make an arms one. Great first full day on orbit. The planning folks are going to hand it over to the rendezvous pros who will start getting you ready for tomorrow. That'll be the orbit one team. And the next voice you hear will be Chris Hadfield. Thanks for all your help down there. We're looking forward to seeing you again tomorrow. Things look really great. Thanks for all your help. I've opened the envelope. Now we have to do this one. We have to remove. Let's see how we can do the best. Okay Chris, copy. Can you see much with that? Yes we do and I'll check with the PI. Would you like me to hold off on sewing it in the incubator? Stand by. Atlanta Spacehab for RMD. The PI got a good look. Thanks you and says you have a go to go ahead and place that in the incubator. I put a question to the commander Charles Precourt. What's it like having a British astronaut among you? Is he made of the right stuff? I better say yes to that one. Mike's a great asset to the NASA program. And he brings a load of experience from a lot of different areas to us. And you know he kind of hinted at the fact that the benefits of an international space station is that the fact that we bring together the talents of many different nations. And in fact many different cultures. And new ideas bring new ways of doing things and we discover new things together. So yeah Mike is a great asset. We're going to miss him when we close the hatch but we're glad that he's representing us when we do. Hey well good morning Bill by the sounds of that it must be time to go ahead with your comments. And it's Houston we have a nice downlink of Mir. In the binocs we could pick out the solar rays and everything. 3.6 on the last RCMS. All right down. It's just right now the forward numbers. Because we're interconnecting to the RCMS. Yeah that's right. Houston we're back with you visually looking through camera alpha. Just an update on our nav we're still on reflector one on both PCS. And we're within a foot on our handheld laser our dot that is perfectly. And Charlie's got a dead center in the corridor and excellent com with Mir. Sounds good all around thanks for the update any. Did you read this message about the lighting condition should be good unless we get delayed. I got to know. We have contact and capture. Houston and Lannis contact one more time. A pressurization equalization is about over. We're live in clear Charlie we see that we're going to lose you to the ZOE in a little under two minutes. And we'll have you again solid at 16 minutes past. And it's Houston we're with you on the West and we're looking at you in the hatch Charles. OK Chris the video looks good to you we're ready to open. Looks great and sounds fine as well you have a you have a go. Come on in. Coming in with the traditional. Going to bring up the with Carlos here. He's going to show us how to fly through the mirror. Go ahead Jerry. Welcome everybody back in Houston. Great to have the shuttle crew aboard. Great to see you Jerry. I think Jerry might want to say something to you guys there in the control center. Good job. Appreciate you getting the crew up here like you did and Charlie just brought it right in. Steady as can be it was great to see him and it's going to be a great celebration here. It's great to see you and we're looking forward to having you back at Ellington. And if someone just wants to push and hold the button it's a pretty good area Mike. Chris we're doing that and we've got one other gift for Sush and Vasilie. We're making them honorary 84 members with a little hat that shows our patch. It's a great gift Sush. It's a great gift. It's a great gift. It's a great gift. It's a great gift. Vasilie wanted to know if the little symbol on the hat meant that he was an admiral but we prefer general in the Air Force of course. Since Vasilie and I have both Air Force types we'll just go with that. And for Jerry he brought his pretzels along. I'm in the base plot where you see most of the pictures that come out of the mirror. It's the table where we all gather to eat when the time is available. We've got quite a bit of gear. We have a little sleep cabin over this way. This just happens to be the commander's sleep station. And he's got a little mirror. He's got some personal pictures. Pens, patches. Mirror 23 patch for example. Decorating his walls. Got a CD player. Little tape players to relax and take life easy. One of the air generating systems is here and also the CO2 cleaning system is here. As long as we say with a blocked bread and cremation which takes out contaminants in the air. And all of those run in this module. And this is also a module where we're having some cooling leak problems and we did some repairs where we cut tubes and basically blocked them off with some plugs. And as you can see it's very difficult to work. The area has to get cleared. We had it totally cleared for about four weeks looking for the leaks and it's very very difficult to work back here. We're able to find one leak but we still have some problems. So Mike's going to have his hands full working back here. Finding the leak is one thing and then getting access to the leak is a different bogging. And we'll back back out. By the way the fire I guess is kind of interesting. People have heard about the fire. The fire was basically in this region here with the flames shooting across this way. And the airplayers you can see where the camera is is basically where I was at and we had one other body in front of me. I was passing the fire extinguisher but we could only get one person in here to fight the fire because of the flame location. And at that time the other Soyuz was on the other side where Progress is now docked. So as you can see it would have been very difficult to get through the flame itself to get through the one of the rescue vehicles. And it was very difficult to fight the fire because you could only get one body close enough to the fire itself. Commander's post right here which is of course interesting. And Commander Vassili's here. Fish opening up. And Vassili says hello to everybody. Doing a little work at the command post. That is a scope down here, a couple CRT tubes. And there's a lot of different commands in this area. And over here is actually your signal of that bolt or your panel that gives you all of your caution and warning alarms. Okay, this table is very nice soft Velcro and I found this the most effective place to do work. If I had surface sampling or air sampling I'd organize my work right here, put everything in nice order and then fly to the place where I had to do the sampling. Thank you for your attention. And I hope you've got a feel for the space station as we flew you through it. It's a pretty pleasant place to live when you can get a space to look like this. They go into the second window to show you the image here. But it doesn't look like it'll need any more time. Just simply turn over Florida. It is a gorgeous night in Florida. The entire peninsula view as we head over to the Atlantic. We're back with you now. Beautiful night tonight but all of the eastern US we've still got the tip of Florida peninsula in sight while we're over in New York. We see New York, Washington all the way over to St. Louis down to Atlanta, Memphis. It's gorgeous out there. We're here singing Lee Greenwind songs. And we copy. Bob, I'd just like to say that this is a great day for us. It's a little bit sad of course because a thrilling flight is coming to an end and we're going to have to separate the vehicles here tomorrow morning and that'll be a bit of a sweet memory for us. We've had a great time getting Mike ready to take over the place and fill the big shoes that Jerry's left behind here with a lot of progress being made on board. This picture on the screen right here is really heartwarming for everybody. You guys have done a fantastic job up there. The silly and Sasha who have become our wonderful friends they've let us share their wonderful home and we thank them very much for that. And with that in mind we'd like to leave them a small gift from us. It's a t-shirt. One for each of them. Our name of our shuttle and our crew patch. The silly. Thank you very much. And also one for Sasha. A memento you can remember our flight. And also from phase one the phase one folks would like to leave there. Thanks also with the crew of New York. And with the phase one show representing our program it's been so successful. Houston, Russia is ready to close the hatch and we wished them well. Had a great flight and it's kind of sorry to see them close the hatch on ourselves here but we're sure they're going to do great. Thank you. Okay guys. Good luck. Thank you. We copy, thanks. Seven. Okay, got a clock running. Okay, one clock. I'll be late. I'll be late back here. Okay, one clock. Three feet. Got it, got it. The picture is great. The weights are working. I can see it. Thirty feet. Thirty feet. Thirty feet. Thirty two and a half. Point three five. That's the way we don't want to check that rain. Thirty five feet. Point three three. How's their attitude? I'm still documenting. Bye-bye. And it lands Houston. Let's reconfigure back to normal air to grounds. I think it's me. Whoa, there's a good one. Look out the tail and you can if you can. I'm looking out with the little camera here and I can see the tail out there. Not the tail, but I can see the flashes over the tail. The overhead's going to show you. Is that nice? That is nice. Oh, is it sunrise? Is it sunrise? I see it. Excuse me. The sun's going to overpower the glow here, so we didn't get a very long glow show. 13,000, I see on the left. 12,000 feet. A nominal shoot deploy. Roger that. 2,000 feet. Ocean land, okay. Body flaps trail. Keep buying the instruments. 8,000 feet. There's a runway. That looks really good. Yes it does. It's dead on better than any other day. 7,000 feet. 6,000 feet. 2 pappies. 41% speed. Radar looks good. 4,000 feet. Looking good. Real good. 3,000 feet. 35. I see the pre-flare and the gear is armed. 4,000 feet. Next speed was 305. 900. The gear on time. 200 feet. Ball bar. 100 feet. Gear is down. 270. Long speed. 230 knots. 25 feet. Keep it coming down. 220, 210. Looking good. 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 200. Touchdown. Action. She's coming. Okay, down one and a half. Okay. With Atlantis' speed now down to 3200 miles per hour the rudder on the tail of the orbiter is now active. And Sonic Boom's announcing Atlantis' arrival in the landing area. Time to touchdown. 3 minutes 25 seconds. Atlantis now on glide slope and on center line. Setting up for the final approach in landing to runway 33. Landing gear is now down and locked. Main gear touchdown and nose gear touchdown. Atlantis rolling out on runway 33 at the Kennedy Space Center completing 145 orbits of the Earth in a 3.6 million mile journey to deliver Mike Fohl to the Mir space station and also to return Jerry Leninger to Earth after four and a half months in space. We will stop and we'd like to offer congratulations on a flawless flight and a special welcome home for Jerry. We have a go for post landing procedures on page 5-3. Thank you all. You guys did a super job putting a great mission together for us.