GEORGE DILLER: And we can see now that the stairs are down on the
crew transport vehicle.
And here they come.
Meeting our associate administrator for first spaceflight, Bill Gerstenmaier.
STEVE FRICK: Well, hey, good morning or afternoon, I'm not really sure.
Our clocks get a little twisted up on orbit.
But it's great for the 122 crew to be back on the ground here at the
Kennedy Space Center on our first try.
As you can see, the weather is gorgeous and it looks just as nice
from up high as it does down here.
Atlantis is a great ship. It brought us home without any troubles.
Everything worked just beautifully and perfectly. We're obviously very
excited that our mission is complete and was successful.
We got everything done that we had hoped to get done.
We came home safely.
The ship and Mission Control kept close watch over us and kept us
safe. We're going to go now and go see our families.
It's, as you can imagine, a space shuttle mission is,
both the mission and the training is very tough on the families and
they've had a very tough time for the last two weeks as we're up in space and
they're not comfortable or happy until we get home.
So we're glad that we can bring some relief to them and we're looking very
much forward to going and seeing them in just a few minutes.
So thanks very much.
DILLER: And there they go.
It's about a 15-minute ride back to the astronaut quarters from the runway.