1.   American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts warmly greeted one another aboard the Mir space station after a U.S. shuttle crew docked Thursday for a ninth and final time.

2.   And already awaiting her arrival on Mir are books purchased by her daughters and carried to the outpost in November by a U.S. shuttle crew.

3.   Another shuttle crew will arrive before Thanksgiving with the first U.S. solar power generator.

4.   As the shuttle crew retrieves Spartan, the astronauts plan to evaluate the accuracy of a new video and laser guidance system.

5.   At that time, a shuttle crew dropped off hundreds of pounds of supplies for future resident astronauts and cosmonauts.

6.   Because of time constraints, the shuttle crew was unable to test fly a video camera-equipped robot called Sprint during the spacewalk.

7.   Before disconnecting, the shuttle crew will give the station one final boost into its proper orbit.

8.   Both occurred as Columbia lifted off early Friday and either could have forced the shuttle crew to attempt an unprecedented, risky emergency landing in Florida or West Africa.

9.   -- A communications link between the shuttle crew and Mission Control in Houston faltered.

10.   The shuttle crew attempted to quickly recapture Spartan following the release when it became apparent the spacecraft was not working properly.