 I did too, but it's real real happy to give you an on-time wake-up call. We're not used to sleeping all night. Gee, that's a great thing. This is mission control Houston, this live picture now from the shuttle space lab module. This picture showing mission specialists Ellen Baker and Bonnie Dunbar in the space lab science workshop in the rear of Atlantis' cargo bay, beginning to set up the lower body negative pressure device, that's the white sac that you see floating on the left side of the screen next to Baker. That device will be used in which Mir 18 crew members of Vladimir Duzhurov, Gennady Strakilov, and Nord Thagard will each take turns climbing into over the next several days and in fact after Atlantis' undocking from the mirror to help draw fluids evenly throughout their bodies in a countermeasure activity designed to help them re-adapt to Earth's gravity once Atlantis returns to Earth on Friday. Dunbar has also been involved in activities aboard the space lab this morning with the Mir 18 crew who are in essence three guinea pigs being perfect subjects for the study of the effect of long exposure to weightlessness on the human body. In this picture from the shuttle space lab module Duzhurov is putting his shirt back on after having been instrumented for the lower body negative pressure device by Bonnie Dunbar. Payload commander Ellen Baker is on the left side of the picture. She is working to hook up all of the telemetry wires and monitors for the lower body negative pressure device while pilot Charlie Precourt in the foreground there armed with a camera to document all the activity that's taking place in the shuttle space lab. Yeah, and I understand you're also looking forward to getting a good old-fashioned American hot dog. Hot dogs and hamburgers and ice cream, those will be great. All right. If you would pass the microphone please back to Commander Gibson. I have a few questions for him about the work he's done this week. Commander Gibson you managed to dock the shuttle you brought it in on schedule under budget and within an inch of its life. How much training did you get on the ground in a simulator for that? And then how did the real thing compare to the training? Well, Leigh Ann, there's a real important point that I want to make here and that is that we brought the shuttle in on time and successfully accomplished a docking. I was the one who had his hand physically on the controls but I would not have gotten there without the help of an awful lot of folks who you're looking at right now and an awful lot of folks on the ground in mission control and the entire team that put that all together. As you mentioned we have spent a tremendous amount of time in the simulators training to do this particular task and training to do it under ideal conditions and training to do it under less than ideal conditions and all of those things play together to really prepare you to go out and actually do it. We had somewhat ideal conditions in some ways and we had less than ideal conditions in other ways for the actual docking I hope we made it look easy. We wanted to make it look easy and the fact that we came close to making it look easy was because of all that training and because of all the great and excellent work that got done by a lot of people on the ground and the people that we had up here. Well of course now that you've put them together, you the whole crew, you're going to have to take them apart coming up this Tuesday and all goes according to schedule on July 4th. Why don't you tell us how that works or if you wish pass it to another crew member and they can answer the question. I'd like to have our pilot Charlie Precourt talk about that. We're looking forward to the on docking for a couple of reasons. We are going to be able to show it to you through video from both the Soyuz and from the Shuttle and we'll be able to share with you the experience in a little more detail than you saw during the docking. It basically, operationally for us is pretty much the reverse of the process that got us to the docking. The Soyuz, commanded by Anatoly here and also accompanied by the flight engineer Nikolai, they will on dock the Soyuz return capsule before we leave the station and they will move to a position where they can actually film our on docking of the Shuttle. And then we will move out further in distance from the station when we on dock and we will station keep it a position where we can refilm the docking of the Soyuz capsule by Anatoly. All of that should make for some very interesting and be able to demonstrate on film the processes that we went through to coordinate bringing these two massive vehicles together in the first place. So we're really looking forward to that and we're really looking forward to sharing it with you on the ground. Let me ask Anatoly, then, a few questions since he will be out taking pictures. I'm ready. What are you looking forward to? I understand we're talking about the on docking and about flying around the complex and taking pictures when the Shuttle is on docking. Is this correct? Yes. Well, first of all, I think it will be a very beautiful sight because when we were approaching the Mir station, the entire complex is very beautiful and we can also see through the window and look through the window and see the Shuttle, which is very, very close and it's a very beautiful bird. So I think that when we see all of this from the Soyuz spacecraft, how we see Atlantis depart from Mir, we will put this on film and share our feelings and opinions with you. Commander, how long will you be on the Mir once the Shuttle Atlantis departs? We have a rather short mission and on 30 August we will return to Earth. The next crew will be just slightly over two months and will be relieved by another crew. Commander, briefly, how do you think the history of this mission is going to be written in your country? Well, even during training and many interviews, this question was encountered many times. And I think that I think it is worth while revisiting it because it is very important. We, with this flight, are beginning a great program and I would say it's more than a program. It is an absolutely necessary cooperative effort to put forward cosmonautics and this process must proceed quickly because these two systems can complement one another and this development process, its acceleration of this process will be significant. Leigh Ann, this is Hugh Gibson. Actually, you always want to be prepared. We have an expression on board the crew, which is, But we have an expression, which means prepared, always prepared. We had two cakes with us. We had an actual cake that one of our other astronauts, Marcia Ivins, made for us. We also had, just in case it fell apart during the launch, we also had an inflatable birthday cake with candles that we used. So we were well prepared. We will now go to the crew of the Mir and the Space Shuttle Atlantis who are in orbit. Thank you. And we hope you have a safe return. This is Mission Control Houston. Work continues aboard the Shuttle Space Lab module in the rear of Atlantis' cargo bay. As mission specialist Bonnie Dunbar monitors the progress of biomedical tests, which have been ongoing most of the morning on the Mir 18 crew members. Vladimir Dujurov, Gennady Strakilov and U.S. Astronaut Norm Thaggard. Just to Dunbar's left is Flight Engineer Gennady Strakilov, who has been in space for 110 days now. He and his commander Dujurov and his crewmate Thaggard will be returning to Earth next Friday aboard the Shuttle Atlantis for a landing at the Kennedy Space Center. The tests have been in two parts so far. Barrow reflex testing using a special type of neck cuff, which measures the arterial strength of the veins and the neck muscles, as well as blood pressure and other cardiovascular responses after long exposure to microgravity. Also on the left side of the screen in this picture coming to you from the Shuttle Space Lab is the lower body negative pressure device, a sort of cylindrical type sac in which crew members crawl into to use a negative pressure to more evenly distribute fluids flowing through their body, preventing them from pooling in the subject's head and thus being used as a countermeasure against the effects of long exposure to microgravity. Let's go into the cockpit. This is the flight deck. This is just like a flight deck of an airplane. This is the commander's seat. Please have a seat. Note that the view is just the same as out of an airplane. We have screens here for displaying data from computers. That's the seat for the pilot. The commander is the pilot and the pilot actually is the co-pilot. That's the control for controlling the engines and an area for the life support system. This panel is for controlling computers during launch and landing. The commander controls the aircraft using these controls. Behind we have the rear deck or the aft deck. This is where the commander was during the rendezvous and docking. He has the ability to control the craft from this station and to make observations through these windows. On the right hand side we normally have a panel to control the manipulator arm. Right now this has been converted for use by a mechanism for controlling docking. Note that the view through the window here is extremely good. In the center we have a panel for controlling the television camera system. We have many television cameras. During the rendezvous and docking Charlie was right here where we are. Normally however he would be found in the Charlie assisted in all aspects during all aspects of the rendezvous. Operation during rendezvous and docking is very complex however it went well and there were no problems during the rendezvous or during the docking. Right now there is an excellent view of the station through these windows. Maybe we can show this view through the window. This is one of the modules of the Mir station. It is the crystal module. The crystal contains the docking mechanisms. Fortunately these mechanisms operated well during the docking. Here are the other modules of the station. It is called the Quant 2. This module contains a service module for performing extracurricular activity. Cosmonauts use this module during EVAs. Here we have another deck on the shuttle. A so called middle deck. The middle deck resembles the house keeping deck of the Soyuz. The members of the crew spend much time here. We have instruments here for providing food. We have in a sense a galley, a toilet. We have many containers to store various instruments. And this metallic container on the right hand side. Let's now proceed to the space lab. Sometimes we have a space lab. This is a laboratory that is found in the payload bay. And the access to this laboratory is through a tunnel. Which is approximately 8 meters or 25 feet. And it is rather dark in the tunnel. But the space lab is very bright. There is a lot of light here. Of course the primary reason for the laboratory is to perform all sorts of different scientific experiments. For example, we right now have experiments designed to study changes in humans during long term exposure to the weightless conditions of space. Primarily this is a system for controlling all of the systems in the space lab. This is mission control Houston once again. This live picture coming from the shuttle space lab module. Showing Mir 18 flight engineer Gennady Strekeloff in the lower body negative pressure device. This is the first use of the LBNP device on this joint phase of the shuttle Mir docking mission. Gennady Strekeloff will be using this device every day now for the next several days through landing with the exception of on docking day. For now on just a TBC update we are now downlinking the treadmill on TBC1.