hey, you can use a family conference to talk to laurel and find out what she knew. -oh! -you got to remember the hat you re wearing is your flight-surgeon hat, not your family hat. it would have broken protocol for me to bring up an issue to a crew member, even though it s my wife. -i remember a certain sense of relief like, it s almost over. she s almost back. -i didn t talk to laurel about the foam issue. that conference was for iain and laurel, and i was a bystander. -i knew she was going to come back.
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Like i said, ground teams are still looking into it and that s all i note as well. here watching the launch yeah. we re watching as equipment bags, et cetera, appear to be coming off. i guess that well, or maybe going on basically, this is the crew that s going to extract the astronauts from the rocket. we think and so are in laurel, you ve, you ve this is your life, you know, you ve, you ve as i understand, you ve spent 204 days in space on the space station, and so have you had these experiences these last minute, t minus four minutes, scrubs like this i have peripherally on my landing the lot, the launch of my replacement, tracy dyson was scrubbed actually, so i ended up staying on orbit a little bit longer. but as astronauts we train for things like this and we re
Always ready if we need, if things don t go as planned. and so we ll reset and hopefully you get to try again tomorrow. laurel, i hadn t even considered the idea that your replacement could be grounded. what did you have to do at that point? just circled so i was onboard space station. so i just stayed on space station and kept working until she arrived. so it s about it, i think five or six day delay but it s definitely, you know, you get you get ready for a moment and then that moment doesn t happen and it s always hard, but you have to very quickly pivot and look at the situation that you have in front of you and keep on working the problem yes. i mean, you astronauts are such cool cucumbers. it s incredible that you re, you re so flexible for whatever eventuality happens, but you just said that it might launch tomorrow and i know that that was another planned launch. state if today was scrubbed is