 as a ticket for the ride home. Good morning. I'm sure, Todd, I was looking forward to it. We copy, Jeff, and while you're there, if you could give us some close-up macro video of Gravit 3 and Gravit 4 of the PI, I would like to see what the results look like there. There I would like to ask a question of Michael Baker. On your fly, on the station meal, and what's your main task, what do you have to do? The flight was to pick up John Blaha and deliver Jerry Leninger to the space station meal. And of course, in the process, they transfer their experiments, would take John's, some of John's experiments home and all of his results. They're dropping off some experiments for Jerry and also some supplies for the meal space station, including water, clothing, food. And some other hard way. This is Mark Carrot from the Houston Chronicle for John Blaha. Before you went on this mission, you spoke of a personal and professional desire to make a long space flight. And I just wonder if your experience has met your expectation and what you found most satisfying about it. Right. That was a good question. In 1991, when I attended a Congress of Cosmonauts and Americans in Berlin, I saw some video and heard through translators because I spoke no Russian and about the mere space station and set a goal to fly on it. And now I've had the opportunity. Yes, it has met my expectations. I learned many, many things. There are a lot of things very different about a space station and working on it than there are on a space shuttle flight. And I'm kind of a dumb person. I'm not an engineer. I'm not a doctor. So I'm not a real smart person. But the way I can contribute to the space program is as an operator. And I know if I wanted to continue to work in the space program, I needed to experience this myself so that I could contribute. And yes, it has met those expectations. For John Grunzfeld, so we can get somebody else the chance with the mic. From amateur astronomer to professional astronomer, have you had a chance to look at the comet yet, take a photo of it, any impressions of it from space? We've gone to the flight deck a couple of times and tried. As you know, we've been really busy this flight and haven't had a lot of opportunities. And a couple of times we've tried. The problem we ran into is that the sunrise comes so fast that our eyes have adjusted to darkness just in time to see the sunrise. And so we haven't been able to see that yet. For Mike Bake. We did watch comets last year. We had two of those last year. One of them went behind the sun and is coming up now. And we're hoping to watch it several times. It's an outstanding comment. We've been finding him and showing him the valerian eye. And so he's done very well with spotting and those kind of things in space during our long flight. This is Phil Chen again for Jeff. Can you discuss the problems you had setting up the TVIS experiment before your docking day? And what kind of confidence do you have that you're going to be able to set it up on the post on docking day faster, smoother, better, faster, better, cheaper than you did previously and get the science back? The problems that we had when we originally set it up were some mid-problems getting power to it and some problems getting the data recorded. We think we've resolved all those. And obviously, having been through it once now, it's very fresh in our memory how to put it all together and how to stow things on board. So we think we can be quite efficient the second time around. And with those problems now behind us, we expect it to go pretty smoothly and to get a full day to take for the folks on the ground. And I think it'll be very worthwhile. And I guess, Brent, you're the only one we haven't heard from yet. Any hope to get an extra day in space so you can get additional T-Vis data? Well, Phil, I think all crews will tell you that they'll take an extra day in space if they can get it. Being up here is a real special experience. And the chance to have an extra day is one you'll always jump at. But we're happy to do whatever we can to keep the program on track and to get as much data as we can for T-Vis. So if it means running T-Vis one or two days or have to do whatever it takes and eventually we'll get home and we'll have a successful mission and we'll be glad to be back when we're back. At that time, what are your friends? We say, we say, what are your stories? This flight, like the ones before, it will be part of history. We are very proud that we have the honor of participating in this flight. Thank you very much. For your hospitality, for John, and for assistance. As I have said many times, I'm very glad that I have had the opportunity to participate in the joint program with the Russians on the shuttle. And this program is not only important for space exploration, but also for the relationship between the countries. I started working on my Russian two years ago and I came to train for a flight. We, my wife and I, met and befriended many Russians and it was wonderful. And our relationship with the Russians continues and will expand. It has been wonderful. Thank you, Valeri, thank you, Sasha. I think that the Mir station is an excellent station and I admire the workers that build these stations that built this one, it's wonderful. It's time for us to part or it's coming up. We have worked with STS-81 crew. Unfortunately, we are saying goodbye to the excellent Atlantis crew, STS-81 crew that performed a wonderful docking. And we have completed all of the program that was planned and we're seeing them off now and we wish them a safe landing and a successful completion of their tasks. We are also saying goodbye to our colleague, the American astronaut, John Blaha, who spent four months with us aboard. We have worked a lot, we have had problems. But despite anything and everything, we have remained friends and we have completed our tasks. We will miss John, but we have a new crew member, General Ininger, with whom we are to do no less responsible and important tasks and I hope we will be as successful as we were as John. Thank you very much. Have a safe landing, all the best. I would like to simply say that I'm very glad to be here on the mirror and I'm saying goodbye to my crew, STS-81. Thank you very much. Until we meet again on the ground and in orbit. We'll see you soon. I hope that everything will be fine. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I don't need that anymore. We will meet later. I'm a producer. Once again, I hope that everything will be fine. So we are making a video chat and produce different channels, right? Yes. Commander Mike Baker, shaking hands with his commander counterpart, Valeri Corzun aboard Mir. Go ahead. Thank you, ma'am. I look forward to reading it. It's in the mail. Copy. Commander Mike Baker now closing the hatch on the Atlantis side of the interface, the Orbiter Docking System hatch coming at 6.46 this morning, central time as the Atlantis Mir complex approaches the equator on the southeasterly swing, traveling down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.