Butch Wilmore

So that's the first kind of visual that I'm experiencing.

And then you go through and the light blue sky gets darker and darker and darker and darker until it's black.

I mean, pretty, pretty amazing.

We get to space.

I'm still strapped in.

I just got queasy.

Yeah, I get space.

I'm still strapped in.

And I look over my left shoulder and Mike Foreman, who was down on the mid deck below, comes levitating up through the hatch where there's a ladder.

You know, we always climb the ladder, but you don't need a ladder in space.

He just levitates up.

Weirdest thing I'd ever seen.

I mean, I've seen it on video, people floating, but with my own eyes.

Now I'm in space and I'm feeling, I'm still strapped in because I got about two hours of work with the commander.

I'm the pilot.

And so as we continue, we got the, you got to maintain your attitude.

So you got reaction control thrusters that are firing to maintain the attitude.

And initially those thrusters fire at 870 pounds of thrust.

Those are the primaries.

Eventually you go to vernier.