Barry 'Butch' Wilmore

Yeah, Glenn, no problem.

It's a blessing to be with you.

Thank you for having me on.

I was the commander.

I was in the left seat.

Yeah, I was the one on the controls.

Yeah, that was my role.

What was going through your head when you start going wrong?

Yeah, in the moment, it was pretty serious.

I mean, we lost the ability to fully control the spacecraft in all six degrees of freedom.

One degree of freedom we lost completely.

The other axes, the attitude and the translation, were compromised and were very, very challenging.

This was before we were docking.

We were out in front of the space station.

And what was going through my mind?

There were three things.

We have to dock.

Uh, we did not have very many options at the time, not knowing why we're losing these thrusters.

We lost, lost, ultimately lost five of our eight aft firing thrusters.

And during that process, not knowing why they're dropping, we have to dock if we don't dock because of the control was, was very challenging because I was, I was manual control, um,