Barry 'Butch' Wilmore
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And the responsibility there, and you're in a one-man space capsule shaped like a person out in the vacuum of space.
It's just, and you see Hawaii go by at 17,500 miles an hour below you.
It's just amazing.
It's thrilling.
And there's, again, responsibility because you're busy.
You got work to do.
You're not out there to sightsee.
You're out there to perform tasks.
So anyway, that's what that's like.
But anyway, these folks are professional.
They have done their preparation.
They are ready to go.
They're excited about going.
But if something goes wrong, that's why we train.
The ground teams, this is a huge team.
This isn't just them.
It's the ground teams as well.
And honestly, the reason we docked successfully ultimately was because
maintaining control of the spacecraft in a very difficult situation, but the ground team's coming up with a plan on the fly to get us safely docked.
And that's what we do at NASA.