Cmdr. Sunita Williams:
You know, I wouldn’t characterize it like that. I think, obviously, there’s a lot of discussion about it, so maybe people could conceive that that’s the way we are, but we’re not stuck. We’re part of a bigger process, right?
We’re part of an International Space Station crew, and we just happened to be the second part, the second two on the crew that was — that came up here. Nick came up here with one other gentleman, and it’s usually four of us up here for an increment. And so Butch and I extended to go along with that increment, per the plan, because those spacecraft rotate every six months or so.
So nothing is really for — as Butch put it before, it’s not about Butch and I. It’s about our obligation to our international partners and fulfilling the world-class science that we’re doing up here on the International Space Station.
