 Good morning. Good morning, Chris. Good morning, Chile. That was Awake the Harp by Haydn, sung for Ron Sege by his friends at the Houston Coral Society. I'll go downstairs and see if I did the trick. Let's just leave it in EVA for the relay. And are you asking if you should take it back to exclusive mirror at the end of the relay? That's a firm. Do you want me to take it back at 2330 or just leave it in EVA? Chile, you can just leave it there and we'll give you a real-time call if necessary. Thank you much. Rock, Atlantis, are you getting the video? That's negative. Ron, just got it. Thank you. See in the foreground is parts of the chorus unit. Copy. Dave, I'll just hold up the 2F4 unit to give you an idea on what its size is. How do we see that? Back the larger unit and then hold this one to the end. We can curl with that, Ron. Got message 32 out. Okay, this is a view of the chorus. We'll probably get the smaller unit and what we have included is primarily the white form and not the top. Sure, that's a good packing config. Thanks, Ron. Okay, Dave. Are you going to be ready for the crew option video? At your discretion, Chile. Okay, I think Rick's going to run that for us today and I'll turn it over to him. Okay. Hello, Dave. What we wanted to do was take everyone down there on the ground through a tour of this magnificent pier. We've got about 12 or 13 minutes of that tour and we'll wrap up back in the space app and cut to Ron for some live action where he's going to explain some of the science that he's doing in BioRack. So I'll just get the view set up here and we'll start the tour. It starts up on the shuttle flight deck. Okay, we'll bring down the flight deck. Thank you, Rick. And Dave, you should be getting some video now. You've seen it. Affirmative, we have video of the flight deck. Okay, just sweep through the flight deck. As you can see, this is a night pass outside when we took this video. Not too good of a view of the docking apparatus and the mirror at night but we'll come back to that and give everyone a good look at it. As we go along here, we'll have several of the crew members of STS-76 and MIR-21 performing transfer apps and various activities in the tunnels, onboard beer in the mid-deck and in the space app. This deal course is coming down the ladder from the flight deck to the mid-deck. With a view of Linda getting into some locker stowage to get something, I believe, for space app ops. We have some of the water fill equipment to the left. That's right. You can see the urban cartridges hooked up together and some of the plumbing that goes into the galley. Of course, our spirit is 76 flag with a rich light in front of it. It's been a very productive day so far. I'm busy at transfer ops. We're doing bringing up a couple tons of water and supplies to resupply the Mir space station. It's kind of amazing, Rick, that our excess water we need to get rid of is exactly what they need. It certainly is a complementary spacecraft system. I agree. It's a perfect example of how we can synergistically use our complementary abilities of the two programs and the two vehicles to get more accomplished than either one of us alone would do. This is a view coming down out of the airlock and taking a turn at the ODS and now we're entering the docking adapter and heading over to the Mir space station. As you can see throughout this entire tour, it gets pretty crowded in the passageways there. Most of these bags are filled with transfer items going one way or the other. Here, Ron and Yuri Yusicev are working some of those transfers and I couldn't resist the urge in a few spots in here to do a few aileron rolls on the way. You can always do them in the airplane. You might as well do them here. That's right. A few less Gs than we pull flying that Eagle though, right? Roger that. Our transit route today on this tour starts with the docking adapter and then on our way to the node, we are transiting through the crystal module. We notice the docking on the way, the air docking for the Mir's requirements. The big cable that we're going to see all the way into the base block is for the BIP's new, that sends audio through the orbiter system from camera hooked up to this. Very shortly here we're going to get to the node and take a turn and I believe I went into Spectre next. We'll see when we get going here. Finally, space vehicles are big enough to get a little lost in, right? Yeah, that's for sure. We'll see that graphically illustrated here in a little bit when we come back to the node. This is inside the Spectre module, which will be basically Shannon's home for the next several months. She'll be conducting her experiments in here. This is actually quite a roomy module and it's perhaps because it's not as full of the transfer items and other equipment as some of the other modules are. But it's starting to get that way. I'm going to do a U-turn down at the end here because there's no connection back. Everything, as you know, is plugged into the central node. You have the Spectre module, the crystal module leading into it, and then of course the base block on the other side. This is a transit back out of the Spectre into the node. And from here, you should be going into the Commod 2 module after that quick aileron roll. It's about a T-38 roll rate there, I believe. Looked about right. And this is the Commod 2 module. Right at the center of the field of view is one of the gyrodynes. We transferred one of those yesterday as one of our first transfer items, a new refurbished gyrodyne to the mirror, and then we're taking back an old one for refurbishment and then subsequent resupply. It points out a great capability that our shuttle has in taking down mass from Earth orbit back down to the Earth in applications such as a space station or working with our partners on board mirrors. Getting just about to the end of the Commod 2 module. And the metal containers are Russian water containers and the white bags are our CWC bags that we've been transferring over, filling them up out of the shuttle's field cell water that's produced and taking it over to the air. I think correct, we're about half through with the water transfer field operations right now. Right out of Commod 2. Into basically the cosmonaut's living quarters next as we go into the base block, the headquarters, if you will, of the mirror space station. This little spinning is just to graphically illustrate the point that you can't get lost in this space station and then you have to keep yourself oriented. When you get to the node, stop and take a second to figure out which way you're really going. You get used to it though after one or two transits and it really isn't too bad to do. Here us, Yuri Artifrico and Chilly and Shannon are discussing some of their transfer operations. Chilly has Chilly and Yuri are holding one of the joint documents that we use to work together. Yuri used to have in the background by the table is doing some prep for some transfer items back from the mirror to the shuttle. Here we're going to proceed into the Commod 1 module and at the end of that is the Soyuz and we'll get all the way down to the end picture here and I poked the camera in the board of the Soyuz capsule and we'll see that shortly. Rick, it looks like you have a little pulley system to move along with. Yeah, that's true, Dave. The Russians use lots of budgies, both for hold downs and for pulling yourself along and they're quite handy for translating. As you can see, I remarked to one of the crew members earlier today that moving around mirrors is kind of like being a spelunker exploring caves and a lot of long narrow passageways for transit. Here are the Russian suits inside the Soyuz and not only the three, of course, are Russian equipment but Shannon's suit is in there. It was checked out yesterday and she's fully and officially a member of the MIR-21 crew now. We'll turn around out of Soyuz and rush it back. At this point I was beginning to worry about the battery on my compact portable light and I kind of speeded the rate up a little bit here. We certainly hope not to use those Soyuz modules but it's nice to know they're there should it become necessary. We just went by one of the little living spaces. Both URIs have their own individual compartment for sleep and it's a very nice opportunity for them to have some privacy during the course of their long stays on board beer. Yeah, we're approaching the node here shortly and then we'll be taking the pathway back to the space shuttle. Here we go, we found the right one and we're on the way. Here we're just about ready to enter the docking module and if you notice in the lower center part of the field of view you see a target similar to the, well it is the exact docking target, the chili used to dock yesterday. And we'll play ODS centerline camera here for just a minute and do our own little docking maneuver. Copy that Rick and we have to use that thing quite a few more times so let's be careful with it. You've got, notice didn't even touch it, we just took the video camera down to it. Back into the shuttle ODS where chili is doing some work and from here we're going to take a turn after the spacehab as Ron is taking some transfer items out of the spacehab tunnel into the beer. These items, most of these items here are items that are temp stowed to be returned on board the shuttle but we have not yet packed them up for final stowage. Now we're inside the spacehab, that's the gyrodive that we're returning to Earth that was on board beer. So I'll stowed and buttoned down ready for re-entry and as we come aboard the spacehab I'm going to cut to some live TV of Ron who's working in there and he's going to take over the narrative describing some of his borrack operations. So we can take downlink to payload one now. So Linda and I are in the spacehab which you probably saw from the view that's past the docking module in the aft part of the payload bay of the shuttle connected by a tunnel. And we have two main activities in the spacehab. One is the transfer of equipment. In this case it's empty food containers. So the number of items that we have include food, clients equipment for Shannon to studies roughly 140 to get more experience a long duration flight and work as well as technology development of our equipment that we will eventually fly on space station as well as beginning to increase our database in the long duration studies of science. Now we have one example of that here in the spacehab it's called Malarack, it's behind Linda and I and it has flown three times before. It's a science of many biology laboratory, 61A, the International Microgravity Laboratory one and two and now of course on us. And it's an example of international cooperation as well in this particular United States and Europe three from the US, three from France, three from Germany, one for Switzerland and one for France. I think we'd like to acknowledge some of those who have done a great deal of work on this project from the BioRack organization we'd like to acknowledge Peter Ginsle, N. O. Brinklin, Claude Brouvet, E. Straffitz and investigators from the US Dr. Nelson, Hughes Melford and Lewis and from the European community Dr. Smith, Colgolly, Tissie Cole, Volkman, Everson, Kiefer, Reit and Marthy and they've all spent a great deal of time not only working on their individual experiments but also how it can come together in this one facility and work together with Linda and I when we work in the glove box as well as the freezer and the incubators allowing each of the experiments to be carried on at the same time. Now I'd like to turn over to Linda to describe some of the activities that she has been doing today in the BioRack. And we've got a neat little lab setup. This is our, I guess our working Suzanne from this location I can reach our Leslie Freezer which is on this end. We open this up and we're keeping some of our samples in cold storage, frozen storage and over to my right keeps us the samples and about five to ten of them watching them just waiting or letting them incubate. They go in different places, they're osteo we're looking at the effects of microgravity on both cell growth and Earth orbit. In front of me and Ron mentioned it is a glove box. We can fit inside this compartment. We can work with these liquids which might come out of them and don't float around the cabin or if they're potentially irritating to our eyes it keeps them in here and I'm happy to relate to everything that's been going well but the glove box makes it a very good place for us to work. And because some of our samples for our biology tissue samples have to be incubated we have two incubators that are two different temperatures this one's at 22 degrees celsius and this one is at 36 degrees celsius so this is a little warmer on the bottom kind of like having a 1g effect like they were on the ground. So when we work here we can work with the glove box within reach and this is a lot of the science that we're doing on the shuttle for this mission. We hope to come back with some very interesting results. I think that was great with respect to the bio racks we're doing some fundamental biology development of technology as well as characterizing the environment some of the radiation and so forth and Shannon will be carrying on doing similar work in fundamental biology and life sciences looking at material systems to allies looking back into the earth atmosphere using a very similar glove box arrangement in the parota module when it arrives next month so her activity I think is going to be very important and after her time is done John Blaha will continue and we'll have a continuous U.S. presence obtaining science on mirror during this phase of our joint program and leading us into the International Space Station. Thanks for your attention today. Mr. Golden, this is Houston, please go ahead. Hello Kevin, how are you feeling? Terrific Mr. Golden, we're having a great time up here. With each of the rendezvous the pilots and commanders are getting better and better. I don't know who has the accuracy record are you holding it right now or does Hoot Gibson still have it? I couldn't tell you sir, my eyes were closed when we docked. We actually have very little time at this time I look through the porthole we see the parts of two space vehicles, the station and shuttle this is a wonderful picture and we have these two systems look very good together and they will confirm that this is very symbolic that these two systems fly together and cooperate and create such beauty. This is a good example and a good precursor for the future Alpha Station. I would like to thank everybody who participated in this project they did a great deal of work and have allowed us to understand each other better and to work together. Thank you. When is the shuttle going to pull away? Three more days. I spent last night on the air because now I'm part of the Mir 21 crew and I must say that Yuri and Yuri have gone out of the way to make sure that I feel at home and I'm very comfortable here. I'm sure that this is going to be really exciting and I'm looking forward to when you get back to get a sense from an American what it's like to be in space so long. Russian friends have been there for more than a year on single missions and I think this mission that you have is going to really help us better understand how to prepare for the International Space Station and we're not just interested in the technical things some of the psychological impacts of isolation up in space is pretty important also. It's an enormous target's mission and I really hope when you come back I'll have a chance to talk to you about your observations of what it feels like to be up there but you'll be connected electronically at least. That's true and I think that we'll learn a lot and I think that it's a very good opportunity that we as America have to start establishing a presence in space for a continuous period of time. I'll be very happy to talk to you when I get back. I'm going to lose communication in a few minutes and I know you have a lot to do. I just wanted to once again say before the mission is even complete we'll have proud I am of you and how pleased I am that we're working so cooperatively with our Russian friends and I think the world is in for a whole new era at the turn of the century because of what you're doing today. Thank you so much and God bless you all. Thank you Mr. Golden and God bless you and I want to personally congratulate the rest of the crew up here. These guys have really been working hard and we look forward to seeing you in a few days. Thank you.