 It was a good turn and I appreciate the music. Welcome Linda, you're gonna have a PFC right away at about 1800. Okay, I'll be back. Yeah, chili. First of all, some big picture words. The MMT has decided this morning or this afternoon actually, your morning to protect the option for the one day early entry. The decision, the final decision won't occur for at least another nine, 10 hours. That's late in your pre-sleep. So we need to protect that option. We realize how busy you are and how much you have to do to prepare for that. The Stowage Bag Assembly Spectrum has also been zero number 001, but it's the SED number 46109754-701. Okay, Dave, I got the kit. Let me open it up. This might point out a shortcoming where we might need to mark on the kits an up and down mission that they come up and down on. Just a thought that can be erased and refilled in. Yeah, I think we've run into a glitch here. We did have it signed off a few days ago as being returned already. Thanks for checking. Okay, Dave, and I got a couple more questions for you. Like I mentioned earlier, 30 empty food containers are stowed in hab. Talk to Yuri and he said he may have two or three more and we got plenty of storage room in the hab in fact they just brought three over. We're expecting up to 36 chili, so at your discretion. Okay, and then item 47 on U.S. science return. Kristal, target. We got the base plate and the standoff cross. Your message said bolts and washers. There are no bolts and washers. Okay, we'll write that down. Thanks. One late piece of data now on the HI kit. The new one should say NASA two on the label. It does not. And so, this is one that looks brand new, but it hasn't been used. Lot thick and... Atlantis mirror, this is Houston. Are you ready for the event? CBS, this is Houston. Please call Atlantis mirror for a voice check. Complicated and it sounds as if the astronauts are coming to the focus, so to speak. Atlantis mirror, this is CBS. How do you hear me? CBS, we hear you loud and clear. Good morning. We'll warn our audience, there is a little bit of a delay in our conversation because of the communications required. Let me just get the introductions out of the way. We're joined by three astronauts this morning and one of their Russian crewmates. They are Shuttle Atlantis commander, Colonel Kevin Shulton, mission specialist, Lieutenant Colonel Rich Clifford, mission specialist Linda Godwin, and the commander of the mirror station, Lieutenant Colonel Yuri Onufriko, excuse me, thank you for being with us. It's our pleasure, we're glad to be here. Commander Chilton, I'd like to see you and ask you to tell us in our audience what the significance of the mission is. Well, there's several significant points to our mission, bringing Shannon up and starting a first permanent presence in space for the US space program is certainly one of the big events that we've done here, accomplished on this mission. And it'll kind of be the culmination of that event when we close the hatch today and prepare for our undocking early tomorrow morning in our day. The other, another big thing we've done is we've transferred over two tons of supplies, water, and equipment to the mirror space station, which is really a first for the US program to bring up that larger quantity of equipment. And then the other great first that we did on this flight, which if I don't mention, I'm gonna get poked in the head on either side, which is accomplished by Rich and Linda here, who made the first EBA by US team from the space shuttle while docked to the space station. And this is really a kind of a beginning or one of the key elements of the construction of that we need to show that we can do for the construction of the International Space Station. And they did it with flying colors. You've all been in space before, I believe, except for Lieutenant Colonel Onia Franco. Does it seem the same as in the past or still as thrilling? Let me answer that two ways. One is, Commander Honor Franco might be his first flight, but he's got more days in space than me on my third flight. And the changes each time you come up, I've flown with Kevin and Linda before on my second flight. And it was remarkable. It was an Earth observing mission. This one had its different moments. Joining up with another spacecraft is just, just phenomenal. It's something you can't ever forget. The physical reactions are pretty much the same each time, but the psychological and the mental factors that you take back with you in the memories are just cherished. Commander Chilton, it must be kind of hard to leave Shannon Lucid behind. She's gonna be up there on Mir for quite some time. I know that this was the intent and that was what was planned, but just the same, it must be kind of hard to leave her. Absolutely, we're gonna miss Shannon both personally, certainly in a personal manner, but I'll tell you what, as a commander, you know, Shannon spent the last 14 months before our lunch in Russia and she only came back three weeks prior to the launch of the shuttle. So she'd been completely away from the shuttle program for a long time and she just fit in just so perfectly with this crew and has contributed so much to the STS-76 crew mission here on orbit. And I know she's gonna do the same thing for the Mir-21 crew, which she's now a member of. But again, I'd like to emphasize, I think everyone's gonna feel kind of sad tomorrow when we close the hatch and say goodbye to our friend, Shannon, not only Shannon, but Urie and Urie. We've, these guys are great fellows and we've all come very close up here. This will be the first time that any American spacecraft has ever come back without one of its crew members. You must see this is quite a milestone. Is it for you like a division between the space program, the way it's always been and what's coming up now with the space station and a permanent presence in space? I guess you'd normally get in trouble for coming back one person short, but on this time I think we'll get a pat on the back. But if someone put it better than I before we launched another astronaut, so it came up to me and said, do you realize that for the first time in the shuttle program you guys are actually going someplace? You're not just going up and down, you're going someplace and you have a place to stop and do something at in the middle of this mission. And when you think of it in that regard, I think this is a milestone in that it is the beginning of this permanent presence here. And we hope to keep this presence that continued on, U.S. presence in space, on through the MIR Phase I program and right on into the Phase II, which is the International Space Station build. NASA managers here are considering shortening your mission and bringing you back a little early. I imagine you'd have to be a little bit disappointed losing a day in space if in fact that happens. Well, we've all flown before and personally, I'm anxious to get home and see my family. I always am when I'm away and I think other people maybe share the same feeling. So one day early is not that big a thing in the grand scheme and I'll tell you, one person who's not feeling too bad about us getting back early, that's Shannon, because that just means it's one extra day and an earlier occasion that the Kennedy Space Center folks will have to get working on Atlantis and as you may not know, that's her ride home in Atlantis. So we got to get her back on the ground and get working on her and get her ready for STS-79. Well, we certainly appreciate you taking the time out of your busy work day to join us on Up to the Minute. Good luck with the rest of the mission. Thank you. Take care. And Houston, CBS. Thank you very much and Dr. Dania, thanks for coming aboard. Dr. Dania. Houston, CBS, that concludes the event. They told us to say that. And thanks, CBS. And Chili zoomed in, it looks real good. Okay, we'll bring it back out and compose it. How's it look now, Bill? You look marvelous. Okay, thanks for your help. And I guess I'd like to begin by saying this is kind of a bittersweet moment for us. And one also filled with a lot of satisfaction. We've had a wonderful time on the near-Atlantis complex here and it started off just fantastic with the warmest welcome anyone can imagine from Yuri Adin and Yuri DeVos. And it just has gone uphill from there with a great working relationship between the two crews and certainly the sense of satisfaction that we feel for having got the job done is tremendous. And Ron Saga, who is my payload commander, has been sweating the transfer, both to and from Mir from the shuttle perspective. And Yuri and Yuri have been working her real hard on the Mir side and it's been a great team effort. And I think we're there. That's the satisfaction part. Truly the sad part will be to bid farewell to Shannon and Yuri and Yuri. This is a tremendous team. We're gonna miss them. You know, we know we'll see Shannon again when she comes back on STF 79. But there's a big ocean between Russia and America. And we're not so confident, they're certain I should say we'll ever see our two friends, Yuri and Yuri Kim. And with that Houston, we'll bid the formal farewell. And I'd like to extend my thanks to STUPE and Moscow for their great support and to all the teams at the MCC. Yeah? I like that Ken has said some good words. It's been a very high pressure time to do the work. We worked not five days. Only five days. And we maintained our regime and moved all the cargoes that we had to transfer. We have one or two cables left. But not very much concerns the program in general. As was told to us by a common friend, a commander of 76, we've flown for five days and we just don't believe that in just a few minutes we'll be that the STS-76 will go through the docking module and we'll say farewell, shut the hatches that are called locks. We will observe each other only through the portholes. They'll be looking at us, we'll be looking at them. And then we'll be in the base block. It'll be sad to say farewell to such a great team. I'd like to say thank you to everybody for really great work past the microphone to Yuri. I would like to add my thanks to the Mission Control Centers in Moscow and in Houston. They have done quite a bit to help us in consulting with us. It's been work well done and a good example of how we can and should work together. And if there had been any barriers between us then we have managed to come closer together. We've done a great deal of good work and it would be great if flights like this could continue, could be prolonged for several days. But Shannon is with us now and she's gonna be with us for four and a half months and we'll do the good work that needs to be done. Thank you. And Houston, if you'll excuse us now we'll bid our personal farewells and finish up the last little bit of work before we close the hatch. Thank you very much for joining us aboard the base block here for FCS 76 and MIR 21's farewell. Bye-bye. A note, Houston, is that these photographs or pictures, I'm sorry, emblems have a spot on here for every single one of the phase one joint flights. And Shannon I think will have the unique position to have her name on here four times as a member of the 76, 79, 21 and 22 curse. Well, Chilly, imagine that. One launch, one landing and credit for four missions.