 Commander Terry Wilkett continuing to fly a very precise course up toward the Mir space station and this view from the Mir space station looking at endeavor as it continues its approach toward the Mir now at a distance of just about 45 feet. And this view of the crew cabin of Endeavour from its overhead windows and these are the overhead windows in the crew cabin of Endeavour as it is now just about 43 feet away from Mir. This view coming from the Mir space station as Endeavour approaches the 30 foot distance from the Mir space station this view of the overhead windows in the crew cabin of Endeavour. Very shortly the crew will begin its station keeping at the 30 foot level before receiving their final go decision to proceed for at the docking with Mir that docking expected just about 11 minutes from now. The docking will take place in darkness as this view also is in orbital night as the two spacecraft now are some 209 nautical miles or 240 statute miles high over the African continent. The crew is reporting that they have sighted the docking target on board Mir and that no course correction is required at this time and the crew is now beginning its final approach to the Mir passing inside the 30 foot mark as it continues a very slow approach for docking with the Mir space station. Endeavour now within 25 feet closing at a rate of about one tenth of a foot per second and contact between Endeavour and the Mir space station confirmed on time at 2.14 pm central time. This view of Astronaut Dave Wolf aboard the Mir space station as Endeavour is now initiating a post-contact thrust maneuver to drive the two rings together to create a hard mate. And again Dave Wolf aboard the Mir space station and now docked to Endeavour along with Flight Engineer Pavel Vinogradov. The crew is now ready to meet the guests. It's an impressive sight actually. It's just amazing. It's been described as a big mosquito or dragonfly and it's right. It's got all kinds of wings on it. It's an incredible sight. Once Commander Anatoly Soloviev is done with his activities opening up the Mir hatch as well as some housekeeping activities at the conclusion of that the shuttle will begin a pressurization equalization prior to the opening of the door from the hatch from the shuttle side allowing the Mir 24 and STS-89 crews to greet each other personally. You have a go for hatch opening. This is mission control Houston. Hatch opening and a first greeting between Mir 24 Commander Anatoly Soloviev and STS-89 Commander Terry Wilkett as Endeavour Mir are passing just to the southeast of Australia. And greetings all around. And an exchange of greetings continuing as the Mir 24 and STS-89 crews meet and greet one another. The crew is now ready to meet the guests. You guys look great. You guys look wonderful. This is really fun. This is really fun. There's a space shuttle down there and there's a real space station that way and we have a place for you. Thanks for coming to get me. Although I could have lived a lot longer psychologically physically but there's a lot of fun and good business to be done on Earth. It's time to go back I think and stand the ball over to Andy. He's very capable and should enjoy this. I'm very happy to welcome the crew of Terry Wilkett that had so magnificently performed the rendezvous and docking and we're very happy to see our friends who have arrived to work together with us on the Mir station. Our friends from Star City. Thank you Anatoly. It is our honor to be here on Space Station Mir. And we thank you for your welcome. We have looked forward to picking up our friend Dave and bringing him back home. And of course we'll be sad for leaving our friend Andy. But we know that another crew will be here shortly to pick him up. And in the meantime I'm sure he is in good hands. We have some gifts that we would like to present to you. Here is some fresh fruit. We have a couple of other things here. We thought we would spur to pick up some chocolate space shuttles as a crew notebook that we use on the shuttle with some shuttle some space Indians for both you and Pavel. Thank you for welcoming us aboard. And last one, a Swiss Army knife with a shuttle image on the side. Most importantly we have brought you this gift. It's confusing for a year and a half now. I'm not sure whether I live in Russia, space or America. But I know it's going to be America. I know all of you people from different places. From space, we really met in space. And Sally from Star City in Russia, you were my first roommate. And it's just amazing to see you all again up here. And it really hits me harder than I ever expected it would. Thanks for coming. And Andy, I look forward to helping you get adjusted. And I think you're in for a wonderful experience. One of the best of your whole life. Well, thanks, David. And Anatoly. It's a pleasure to see you. Thank you very much. Just as I've only been in here a few minutes, I can say I'm going to have an awful lot to learn despite all the training. But it's going to be a fascinating time. It's no doubt about that. So thank you. Thank you both. Anatoly will help you learn. It's a great pleasure to be back. I'm not only on through the space station near to see my old commander again, Anatoly. Great guy. And I'm sure Andy will learn a lot. It's very pleasant to see my colleagues on Mir. We've long waited this moment. We traveled for two days to this point. And finally have seen each other. And we are now seeing a number of happy and gleeful people. And I feel very fortunate to have been here, to be here among these people. Of course, this is the first time I am aboard Mir. This is a very impressive size. The scope of this is just unbelievable. I would like to express my thanks to everyone, to David, Anatoly and Pavel and Terry. I would like to like to greet all of the astronauts and cosmonauts who have arrived here. It is not possible for everyone on earth to come up here. But for those of us who are here, we are one family. We are all citizens of the world. And I greet you all.