Rick Sturckow: OK, well, thank you very much. It's great to be back here at Edwards in California.
It's just great to be back on planet Earth right now,and we had a wonderful mission.
I would like to thank, especially, our lead
flight director, Kelly Beck, and all the great folks working in Mission Control.
There were a lot of challenges on this mission, and they were all
surmounted and all the solutions worked well, and we had a very successful
flight. So thanks a lot to everybody in Houston.
LEE ARCHAMBAULT: Hi, I'm Lee Archambault, the pilot on the mission,
and it's great to be here at Edwards. It's a beautiful day, obviously, and it's a
great place to land the shuttle. We're very proud that the mission is complete.
We got the mission done, we brought the orbiter back in great
shape and we're here safe and sound at Edwards, and just want to thank
everybody, not only here at Edwards for covering us today and catching our
orbiter, but also the folks back at KSC as well as JSC who helped make
STS-117 a very successful mission. Thank you very much.
Patrick Forrester: I just wanted to say how great it is to be here at Edwards,
to come back from this mission that we flew. It was back when I was a captain,
I was stationed here and I used to come down every time the shuttle would
land here and I never thought that maybe I might actually be on it landing here.
We appreciate all the great support that we got back in Houston, and
those that stood up at KSC and then, of course, those that, when we arrived here.
So thank you very much.
Steve Swanson: Hello. I'd just like to thank all the folks around NASA who
made this mission a success, and a special thanks to all my friends and
family who gave me lots of support during the mission. Thank you.
DANNY OLIVAS: Good afternoon. Hi, Danny Olivas, and I just want to
thank the entire NASA family and all of the support folks that have given us
an excellent opportunity to conduct a very successful STS-117 mission,
as well as the Expedition 15. We're pleasured to be a part of that, this mission,
and have the success that we did, so thank you.
JIM REILLY: Hi, I'm Jim Reilly, and want to say thanks for having us here
in California, and just wanted to say that I'm really proud to be part of the
team, both on orbit and on the ground. We accomplished a great mission.
We got everything we needed to get done, done, and we were able to even add a few things.
So it was a really great mission all around for us and I'm
really proud, I'm really proud to be a part of the team with these guys behind us.
Thanks for having us and I appreciate your interest in what we do.