Astronaut Akers with TIPS messages

STS79-E-5246 (22 September 1996) --- Astronauts Thomas D. Akers and Shannon W. Lucid check the latest send-up of "mail" on the Space Shuttle Atlantis' mid deck, during Flight Day 7. The Thermal Imaging Printing System (TIPS) messages likely include information pertinent to the final day of joint activities with the Mir-22 crew members whom Lucid will leave behind for her return to Earth later this week.