 could throw tips on. Yes, I would like to open and thank Commander Anatoly Soloviev and board engineer Pavel Vinogradov for inviting us into their home for the last several days. They have been very gracious. They are a tremendous team. They work well together. They have taught us a lot, and we thank them for being so gracious. It requires an awful lot of teamwork to pull one of these missions together. The part with the Cors de Rondevou is not just the pilots or the crews, but all of the folks on the ground and the tracking stations all around the world to get the precise navigation required. By the way, I feel very confident that, as a mere lost attitude control, we still would have been able to dock with the teamwork that we have and that we've developed over the last several years. The teamwork started, of course, with our two crews once we got aboard. And we proceeded to transfer about 7,000 pounds worth of water, experiments, back and forth, up and down. And our most important transfer, of course, was the two crew members bringing Dr. David Wolf up. And we'll return C. Michael Fole, PhD, after his success will stay up on MIR as soon as we leave. And by the way, I will not use Dr. Wolf's statement, but I love what he says when he closes each of his transmissions to the ground every night with his little statement about risk. And I'll let him say that a little bit later. But the teamwork that we've developed over the past several years in the Phase 1 program has enabled us to pull one of these kinds of missions together where we transfer so much equipment up and down. As much as these flights that requires an awful lot of teamwork, these programs that have been working together as a team and learning from each other. The different programs have different requirements. They have different considerations. They use different techniques when they're performing spacewalks, when they're doing various things, flying around the vehicle, and we have different requirements. But yet it works together. Our vehicle has the capability of bringing equipment and experiments down. The MIR is the only game in town in the space station business, and they have been very successful over the past several years in performing experiments. And now we have the ability to bring some of those results back down to the earth. And so it's a good team effort. This station is a beautiful station. I would like to also compliment the Russians on the resourcefulness, their ingenuity in designing the station and building it, fabricating it, launching it, and extending it past its lifetime. They have done many experiments on board. We will now continue that with the Phase 1 program. And again, it is the only game in town. The work that we've developed in the last several years, we will continue that and bring it into the future and build the International Space Station. We have learned well together. We've learned to operate all the coordination that we will use for the next several days as we perform the fly around. Really help as we build the International Space Station. I'd like to compliment the Russians on their ingenuity. We still don't know where the leak is in the spectrum module, but shortly before our flight, they sent over a lot of hardware that we brought up to help to identify the leak. And so hopefully we'll be able to help in that area tomorrow when we do the fly around. If we don't, they'll perform several space walks over the next several months and hopefully we'll be able to solve the problem and get the station back to its full capabilities. But if they don't, it's still a beautiful station. And David is conducting experiments. There are experiments going around in various parts of the station. He is making some great observations. He's very excited about it and he makes sure that he shares them with all of us as we're getting the transfer operations done. So it's been an exciting six days and we really thank the Russians for inviting us up here. I'll leave it at that and say it's been a great mission for us. We hope to be back on the planet here in a couple of days and we'll see David Wolf certainly when he comes back after four months and hopefully he'll make some amazing findings and collect some more data, which eventually put together with the teamwork of the private investigators down on the ground, the principal investigators on the ground. I think they have a good chance of making some amazing discoveries. So it's been a great mission for us and we hope we look forward to seeing you here in a couple of days. Michelle Coyden with the Associated Press for Dr. Wolf. Now that you've been on MIR for a few days, is there anything you wish you had to make your stay more comfortable or something you may have forgotten to pack in the mad rush to get there? The pants with the Velcro and the Velcro pockets, they're real useful. Mark Carrot from the Houston Chronicle for Mike Fole. In a brief and even if necessary subjective sense, could you sort of describe what you think your contribution was to the partnership? Good time here. Basically enjoyed myself. I learned new things. My mind was opened about a lot of things. And most important, I gained four very new, very close friends who speak a totally different language from the one personal experience that I could really describe is to have learned a new language in the last two years and to have learned to communicate and be close to four people in such a way. It's something I had never expected as a physicist studying only science subjects in college. In terms of the experience in space, my contribution was really one of just being a member of a crew. And when we have people on board space vehicles, they are a crew in spite of their accents, maybe in my case or nationalities. And in that case, I think we should always think of the crew as a whole working together. And each person is contributing in their own way and the best they can to their abilities. I can number a number of little things that I did that I think were special, but I don't think they're very important in the big picture of the crew working together as a whole. Pete Caltieri with the West Kentucky News. Colonel Titov, you've had a most distinguished career. Some might even say legendary. What are your plans after this flight? Do you hope to fly again either on shuttle or with the Russian space agency? The question is for Titov. Does everyone know you as a legendary person? What are your plans after the return? Do you plan to fly again? To say that I don't know for sure. And I think nobody does know what I will be doing in the future. But I think when I return to Earth, there will be some results after this flight. There will be some plans, some implementation. But of course, I wouldn't want to abandon my work currently because I feel I have quite a good experience and this experience should be shared. When I come back, I'll think about it. The municipal television from Karalyov. My question to the Russian part of this big crew for Mr. Titov, Mr. Solovyov and Mr. Vinogradov. Of course, everybody remembers what October 4th of 1950 means. You were small, you were between ages one to ten, but nevertheless, how do you evaluate this jump in the history of mankind? And do you anticipate such huge jumps, quality jumps in the future? Thank you for a good question. We have wonderful chance presented by the two crews, which is present at the Mir-Atlantis complex to congratulate all the citizens of Karalyov with the upcoming holiday. This is a great holiday, which in 1957 probably shook the whole world. This is a fantastic event, which happened on October 4th. The first putnik was launched and many people, which took part in this event, still live in Karalyov. With great pleasure, we congratulate the veterans and all the people who work in this area and all the citizens of Karalyov. And of course, I would like to wish them the best happiness, health, success in each family. I would like to add to these congratulations and I would like to say that it would be difficult to expect in the nearest future such a jump. This was a special event. Maybe only if we step on Mars on any other planet. I think what was achieved 40 years ago was an exclusive achievement. Nothing can compare to the launch of a human into space. First of all, you were fading in and out. I would like for you to repeat your question, but I would also like beforehand to add my words to the congratulations of Anatoliy and Pavel in regards to the holiday. Of course, Karalyov is connected to the names of many of our colleagues and to the names of people we don't know by name. But I would like to congratulate all of my wonderful colleagues with this wonderful holiday. But would you please repeat the questions? First question. There, the functionality of the space suits during EV, our online and the American space suit, the benefits, the negatives, and the positives. And the second, for the commanders, brief results of the joint mission. As far as the Arlan suit and the American EVA suit, they are very similar functionally. And that is natural because they are for the same objectives. These suits are sure 100% functionality for the work we have to perform, and that was proven during EVA. Are positives and negatives for both suits? The only thing I would like to say, the positive qualities of both suits, if they would be combined, and one universal suit will be designed for the future space station, that would be wonderful. And I think many people would say the same. The best thing that can be said about the suit is that they are complementary. It's incredible to me that the Russians went one way, we went a different way, and yet it's all as if the two different designs were built that way intentionally, which they weren't. The Russians have a long history of space achievements. They have been on the space station for 11 years now, permanently inhabited. The Americans, on the other hand, have the capability to transport a lot of equipment up and down in the space shuttle, and so that complements the Russian program. The Russians are very resourceful. The American technology is pretty superb. I mean, our flying vehicle really flies very precisely. It's relatively easy to fly up in rendezvous with a space station and dock, because the system is so precise. It is really that good, and it's a very nice flying machine when you come down and land. There are some problems that you need to make sure you stay away from. You don't want to land in bad weather, et cetera. But overall, the program is very technically competent. Both of them are very good programs. I think the safety records are very good. And I think that we're actually building on each other's programs, and I think together we're much better than if we do it separately. The way, certainly, our nation has built itself on diversity, and I think together we can achieve greatness and someday go back to the moon and on to Mars. If to summarize the results of this mission or to say about the benefits of this mission, I wouldn't want to talk about how many tons of cargo has been delivered by the shuttle to the mirror. I wouldn't even talk about how much the pressure was raised inside the station. What I wanted to talk about is that the Atlantis is docked to mirror, and the most important thing is that two crews, American and Russian, are working together. And the most important thing is the desire to work together exists and is implemented. These missions were very well demonstrated. For example, yesterday we were observing yesterday two cosmonauts and astronauts working in the open space in order for the station to continue operating. For a few days we worked with Michael Foll, also in space suits in the open space. I think this is a wonderful, this is work which bears practical fruit. The station functions, science results are achieved and every day, month, year of the extension of the station operation brings practical results. In our opinion, we begin to understand how the future will have to work, how will we function in space in the future, what would be the positives and the negatives. I think that's the most important result of this mission. And the most important is that two crews are here on orbit. Question for Anatoly Solovyova, would you please tell us how do you evaluate the new on-board computer system operation? I can only say the words which we heard from the MCC. They just said, good job, guys, thank you. I would like to distribute the satisfaction expressed by the MCC to all my friends who are working here. We installed the computer and it's working perfectly. And we just want to say be careful down there on Earth, it's awful close to the ground and somebody could get hurt. Good morning. Good morning, Mike, how are you? Very well. Now I'm both standing by here. Today is my last day. Oh, please, well, make sure you don't forget anything. Pack all those souvenirs.