Offensive:Racy: Possible Labels:daily | door | earth | gazette | person | railing | sky | windowpane OCR: ST Day Shortly before 6 a.m. central time today the nine astrona uts and cosmonauts gathered in the Core Module ot the Russian space station for formal goodbve With the official ceremony complete the crewmembers shared final meal together and exchang er private farewells as Shannon Lucid prepared to return home Atlantis and her replacement on Mir John Blaha began four month stay on the out post after 7 a.m. today. Mission Specialists Carl Walz and pue Mir 22 Commander Valery Korzun with assista ance from F light Engineer John Blaha swung the hatches between their spacecraft closed concluding fiv e days of operations The vest ibule between Atlantis and Mir was depr essurized pue leak checks were per- tormed IP readiness for undocking Atlantis/Mir will remain linked during an abbreviated six ...
