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>> you can feel it. >> okay. all flight controllers. >> go. >> go. >> gnc go. >> surgery >> surgeon. >> go. >> capcom, we're go for landing. >> eagle, houston, you're go for landing. over. >> roger. >> 1201. >> okay, the only callouts from now on will be fuel. >> stand by for 60. >> 60. >> 60 seconds. >> 60 seconds. >> flight time. now two and a half. five feet. okay, houston, looks like a good area.
Manch twenty twelve four hundred kilometers above the earth's surface the crew aboard the i asked that suddenly receive. a red late conjunction something is on a possible collision course flight controllers standing by here in the middle of the refund to. separate from an old satellite is bearing down on the station mission control orders the crew to evacuate to a capsule that serves as an escape craft but then there. part of that sort of. the danger has passed this time a piece of the old cosmos two two five one a russian satellite missed the i assess by a few kilometers but the space station...
Workers, for example, i don't know the exact numbers for flight controllers, don't show up, they can't do that, it's against the law, but will there be any punishment meted out for those who did that? >> well, we have tracked sick leave since the first day, with the secretary of transportation and the faa administrator. our sick leave in the air traffic control unit was actually less than it was in a normal operation. and we stress that this is not who we are and that's not who we are. we are highly skilled, highly trained professionals and take the safety of the flying public very sacred. nei...
Maher last night and she represents the base. this is a nightmare. i mean people who believe, you know, the most repugnant kind of ideas, so i don't think it's ability th about that i think it's about recognizing through this process what you can learn from it. one of the things that you can learn is that the people have power, so you watch the air flight controllers call in sick yesterday, end of shutdown this cannot ever happen again, joy, so long as a reasonable personal of those flight controllers or those fbi agents or those irs workers simply decide, we're sick and as soon as they say th...
>> the airline traffic association beginning to say this is beginning to impinge on the ability of flight controllers to do their job. this is bad not just optics and bad vibrations and news curves putting more pressure on the white house. in terms of legislation being proposed, we haven't seen something that is a true compromise or a true deal. >> the f.a.a., federal aviation administration just sent out a tweet. extraordinary -- this is second ago. and that tweet says the public can be assured that our nation's airspace is #safe. the faa felt compelled to do such a thing. normally this would...