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that occurred during one of
your spaceflights, and
how did the crew handle it?
Barratt: Well that's a
really good question. You know
I've got a little over 200
days in space, and let me tell you
that failures happen. The
one thing I learned is that the
best way to react to a failure
is to be ready for it in the first
place. And everything we
do up here involves a lot of
planning and having backup
systems and methods to handle things.
When I first arrived at the
space station on the Soyuz, our
automatic docking system
failed and we were trained and equipped
to bring it in
manually and we did that. And more
recently here when I had Steve
Bowen out on the end of the robotic
arm and he had a big heavy
piece of very expensive hardware
and our robotic workstation
crashed, and that's not a good place
to be. But we had a
backup system and the space station
crew in a very calm, very
cool-headed but very quick response
brought up that secondary
work station and within a few minutes
we were back in business and
good to go and Steve was moving again.
Steve: Seemed like
forever to me. I'm not sure.
Barratt: Seemed a long
time to Steve, but obviously
being prepared is the
biggest thing. It's great to see that,
when everything is in
order and the crew reacts to their
training and cool heads and
you're back in business really fast.