STS-78 Flight Day 14

Abstract

On this fourteenth day of the STS-78 mission, the flight crew, Cmdr. Terence T. Henricks, Pilot Kevin R. Kregel, Payload Cmdr. Susan J. Helms, Mission Specialists Richard M. Linnehan, Charles E. Brady, Jr., and Payload Specialists Jean-Jacques Favier, Ph.D. and Robert B. Thirsk, M.D., are shown communicating with two cosmonauts and fellow astronaut Shannon Lucid on Russia's Space Station Mir. During this communication link the two crews participate in a special event surrounding the celebration of the Olympics, including a conversation with Billy Payne, a member of the Atlanta Olympic Organizing Committee. Payne congratulated the crews of Mir and Columbia.