Butch Wilmore

And it turns out we shouldn't have been on the spacecraft.

I mean, getting on that spacecraft, it did have some issues coming back.

It made it back, but it still had issues.

And us being on it would not have been a good thing with the issues that they had.

So staying up was the right call.

It is.

It is.

I mean, there's never been in the history of human spaceflight in the scenario of flying in space where you've been unable to control all six degrees of freedom.

You got pitch, roll, and yaw.

That's attitude, right?

Yeah.

And then you got translation, forward and aft, up and down, left and right.

That's translation three degrees.

So I'll put those together.

That's six degrees of freedom, right?

And so never in the history of human spaceflight have we not been able to control all six degrees of freedom.

And we were in that position.

Well, over the course of time, we were able to get a couple of thrusters back, which enabled us to get to the position where we could dock.

And that's the ground teams, everybody working together.

So real time.