00:00And we are coming up on 30 meters from the International Space Station, getting a beautiful
00:11view now of Starliner.
00:13A crew delayed or stuck on the space station is uncommon.
00:20Delayed, certainly.
00:23You know, I mean, stranded sounds like you're in a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific,
00:27you know, with, you know, two ounces of water and no food.
00:31They've got water, food, air.
00:34Station is a very well supplied place these days.
00:38They're kind of stuck because their ride isn't fully approved for return.
00:47Whatever happens with the Starliner, they need to find out what the problem was and
00:52fix it.
00:53And give everybody confidence that they are still in the aerospace business in a major
00:59way.
01:00The astronauts, and I've known many of them, are highly selected people.
01:04They are very mentally resilient, they're physically incredibly fit.
01:09And so I've got no concerns that this delay will put them in any kind of a mental state.
01:19You know, they know what's going on.
01:23NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
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