that is missed, without a second's hesitation, you have to make the call to the flight director and capcom to go up and make a correction to the situation. at times you tend to look at omitted checklist items. and you back off and say, well, we've got an experienced crew. who's going to get it? we made that mistake a couple times in previous flights. this is one where there was no question, i think, we could have made a call that would have eliminated that problem. but again, it's the split second, this exquisite timing necessary between this crew and ground and, again, one of the reasons that you fly these missions, it's to address this process of achieving perfection in the business of space flight, and it's awful tough to get, because things are happening real fast. >> in this case, if that crew had not pulled itself back from the brink, how would you have felt about that decision, not having been rendered as rapidly as perhaps it might have? >> i think every mission that we've ever flown, i think we've found things that we could have done better. we have stepped up to assuming maybe ev