STS-76 Mission Control Center 
Status Report # 7

Monday, March 25, 1996, 5 p.m. CST

The Johnson Space Center Newsroom closed at 5 p.m. CDT Monday and will
reopen at 12:30 a.m. Tuesday in preparation for the Joint Crew
In-Flight Press conference scheduled for just before 2 a.m.

Astronauts aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis were due to awaken at 6:43
p.m. CST to begin flight day five of the 76th shuttle mission.

Coming up late Monday and early Tuesday are continued transfer of
water, supplies and experiment hardware to Mir and preparations
leading up to Wednesday mornings spacewalk.

In the previous flight day, transfer and resupply activities on board
the joined Atlantis/Mir spacecraft continued on or ahead of schedule
as the eight astronauts and cosmonauts worked smoothly through their
timeline.

Throughout the night and early morning hours, the crews moved between
the two vehicles transferring water, logistical supplies and hardware.
Mission Specialist Linda Godwin also continued her work with the
European Space Agency Biorack which contains 11 separate scientific
investigations.

Just before 2:30 a.m. central time Monday, Pilot Rick Searfoss
narrated a videotaped tour of the Mir complex which will be home to
Shannon Lucid and her Mir 21 crew mates -- Commander Yuri Onufrienko
and Yuri Usachev -- for the next few months.  Godwin and Mission
Specialist Ron Sega then provided a video update of their work with
the Biorack investigations and showed some of the transfer items
currently stowed in the SpaceHab module.

Shortly after 8 a.m., Atlantis Commander Kevin Chilton, Onufrienko and
Lucid talked with NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin in Washington, D.C.
Goldin congratulated the crew on the successful docking of the two
spacecraft.

The Shuttle and its now five-person crew is expected to return to
Earth March 31 with a 6:00 a.m. CST landing at Kennedy Space Center,
Florida.

The 230-ton Atlantis-Mir complex is orbiting the Earth every 90
minutes at an altitude of about 240 statute miles with systems on both
spacecraft operating normally.