Okay, I'll double check that.

I'm looking forward to a hot shower and some fresh air and some fresh food -- ice cream, salads, things we don't have on the station. I'm looking forward to seeing my family and friends.

I believe this hardware is the foundation for what will put humanity into space forever. There will always be people off the face of the planet.

It is an excellent chance to go back up and see the hardware, see how it's been performing, work on a few components that need a little bit of attention and, of course, begin to transfer a large amount of hardware into the station that the crew will use in the future for living and working up there.

It's interesting that at the very end of the program, after such a smooth (flight) for Andy, that we had this problem occur with the motion-control system. It's frustrating to a certain extent, but, hey, maybe it's our signature. It certainly adds some drama to it.

We got information gradually as the details came out and people understood what had happened and how it was affecting the country and the rest of the world.

You expect somebody to come pick you up and then they call and say, well, they're having second thoughts. That's what a person in that situation would probably think. He's just waiting for the next shoe to fall. But we're going to go get him.

Yury, Jim, Susan, I know it's a tough day. I know it's hard to say good-bye.

It affected us over several days, and every morning when I opened the mail (e-mail), there would be some new piece of information that would hit me pretty hard.