00:00One, two, three, four.
00:05I feel confident that if we had to,
00:08if there was a problem with the International Space Station,
00:11we can get in our spacecraft and we can undock,
00:14talk to our team, and figure out the best way to come home.
00:17Yeah, like I said, we've practiced a lot,
00:20so I have a feeling, I have a real good feeling in my heart
00:23that this spacecraft will bring us home, no problem.
00:27Five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
00:33Absolutely confident.
00:35We've already, as Sonny mentioned, for Safe Haven,
00:37we had that test, not just the test but also to do it for real
00:42when we had that possible conjunction a few weeks ago,
00:45and we got in Starliner, we were ready to go.
00:47Everything's in place as far as what we know now.
00:49That is a good point.
00:51We are actually doing thruster testing as we speak at White Sands, New Mexico,
00:55going through that process, trying to replicate what we saw on that flight day two
00:59when we were rendezvousing, and we're going to learn from that,
01:02and we're going to incorporate new processes, new procedures
01:05that we will employ if necessary.
01:08So obviously right now we are ready.
01:11We will be ready then unless the data shows otherwise,
01:14but right now based on what we know, we are absolutely ready.
01:25And that concludes our event.
01:28Thank you to all participants.
01:30Station, we are now resuming operational audio communication.
01:38It feels good to float around.
01:39It feels good to be in space and work up here with the International Space Station team.
01:43So, yeah, it's great to be up here.
01:45So I'm not complaining.
01:46Butch isn't complaining that we're here for a couple weeks, extra weeks.
01:56I can tell you that this is the world of test.
02:03This is a tough business that we're in.
02:06Human spaceflight is not easy in any regime,
02:09and there have been multiple issues with every spacecraft that's ever been designed,
02:14and that's the nature of what we do.
02:16You know, that mantra you've heard, failure is not an option.
02:19That's why we are staying here now.
02:26It was truly amazing the precision that this spacecraft held.
02:32And then we got into day two, the start of day two.
02:34It was the same starting off.
02:36And then we did have some failures, as we're all aware.
02:39We lost an RCS jet, and then we lost another one.
02:43And then you could tell the thrust, the control, the capability was degraded.
02:48The handling qualities were not the same.
02:51But thankfully, we had practiced and we had gotten certified for manual control,
02:56and so we took over manual control for over an hour on the VBAR,
03:00the axis where we actually rendezvous with the space station,
03:03and for over an hour while the teams on the ground did their troubleshooting,
03:07and we got a couple of jets back.
03:09And then from that point on, you could tell that the thrust was degraded.
03:13At the time, we didn't know why.
03:15Obviously, since the failures had just happened, you could tell it was degraded.
03:19But it was still impressive.
03:28Thank you so much for taking the time.
03:30We're excited to talk to you again shortly before you come home.
03:33Have a great rest of your mission.
03:49NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
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