JOHN HOLLIMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The entire shuttle crew climbed aboard Mir to say goodbye one last time. After days together in space, it was an emotional moment.</s>UNIDENTIFIED ASTRONAUT: ... kind of quiet, we're going to keep the microphone down and let you hear what's going on here, of course. But it's going to be a pretty quiet moment for all of us I'm afraid, and the whole crew is here to say goodbye to a wonderful program, for what it's been to all of us and what we hope it will mean for all of us in the future.</s>HOLLIMAN: Mir commander Talgat Musabayev gave Freeport a couple of parting gifts: a wrench, which was used in a spacewalk to fix Mir's steering system, it could be used to construct the new international space station; and there was a roll of film shot as the departure ceremony was underway. And finally, it was time to go. With some last-minute waving, the Mir hatch was shut, but not without a lingering look by commander Musabayev who still has several more months left on Mir. This is the view from Mir's camera, as the Americans waved goodbye. There has been an American on Mir constantly for the past three years and the two cosmonauts are by themselves for the first time since arriving on Mir, four months ago, a lonely sight. John Holliman, CNN, Atlanta.
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