Butch Wilmore

And then also in that thought process, to your point, if we do dock...

I don't think we're coming home in this spacecraft.

Even before we docked, it was obvious to me that it would be very challenging.

How can we bound the problem?

Because you can't do a spacewalk and go out and inspect the thrusters.

They're not made that way.

So how do you bound the problem?

I thought, there's no way.

So-

It was three months.

We were on space station three months before the final decision was made not to return on the spacecraft.

But about a month in, because of what I already knew, I told my family, I said, hey, the most likely scenario is we don't make it back until probably 2025.

And this was July of 2024 at the time.

So that was six months away.

And that's the most likely scenario.

And as it played out, we probably would have been up a full year.

It would have been June when we got back of 2025.

But powers that be, the administration got involved and swapped some spacecraft on the ground processing that was taking place of the SpaceX Dragon and launched one in March, which means we were able to come back in March and vice all the way to June.

So, yeah.

Anyway, that's the thought process.