Well, Butch, I have to start with what was to be a eight-day to two-week mission, some variable, and then the world kind of followed along. And it stretched and stretched and stretched to nine and a half months.

I think the question for all of us who can't even process what that was like,

what happens in your brain when the uncertainty is just every day?

Yeah.

Well, I can tell you, the best way to answer that is to start

from the beginning. Okay. Because that's really where that whole assessment of what the

possibilities were, kind of were solidified. So in short, we lost five of our aft firing thrusters. We only have eight. When we lost those

thrusters, not all at the same time, but they cascaded. When we lost those thrusters, we lost the

ability to fully control the spacecraft. So we lost the ability, six degree of freedom. You've got

attitude, pitch, roll, and y'. That's attitude. And you've got

translation, forward and aft, up and down, left and right. That's translation. Put the three and three

together, that's six degrees of freedom. That's how you fly in space. We lost the ability to fully

control our translation, forward and aft, and all the other axes were affected.

And they were affected fairly significantly when we got to that point when we lost those thrusters.

So I'm manual control at the time.

I'm controlling the spacecraft, and it was not easy.

Several things I had to. I had to maintain my position.

I had to maintain my attitude. I had to maintain my attitude.

I don't want to go on those details. But I had to do that, and to do that in the condition the

spacecraft was in was very, was trying. I wrote a book, and I didn't write a book because of this,

but in the book I describe what happened. And it's all those decades leading up to that that I think enabled me by the Lord's grace to control the spacecraft that was very difficult to control.

So that sets the foundation.

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