1.   A European Space Agency astronaut, Clervoy is qualified as a NASA mission specialist.

2.   A mission control specialist symbolically joined together a scale model of the Mir and the Atlantis that was atop his console.

3.   After the program, Kavandi will be qualified as a missions specialist aboard future space shuttle flights and may be recruited to put together the space station.

4.   Also aboard the shuttle are pilot Pam Melroy, flight engineer Bill McArthur, mission specialists Leroy Chiao, Jeff Wisoff, Mike Lopez-Alegria and Koichi Wakata.

5.   Also returning to Houston were Atlantis commander Mike Baker, pilot Brent Jett and mission specialists John Grunsfeld, Jeff Wisoff and Marsha Ivins.

6.   But mission operations specialist Bob Castle said officials determined that the leak posed little risk to the mission and said the flight rule would not be applied.

7.   Chretien is currently qualified as a NASA mission specialist.

8.   Chretien, who has flown twice as a cosmonaut, is making his first flight as a NASA mission specialist.

9.   Columbia commander Ken Cockrell, pilot Kent Rominger, flight engineer Tom Jones and mission specialists Story Musgrave and Tammy Jernigan planned to remain in Florida through the delay.

10.   Currently, she and other mission specialists are taking robotic arm training in preparation for a visit to the space station.