center speaking about his future. six hours of speech occupational, physical therapy. she s got very busy days and meals in between. and i started to think about sts-134, about the mission, my crew, the fooact that i ve been training for it for nearly a year and a half. and considering a bunch of other factors, including how what gabrielle would want me to do and what her parents and her family and my family would like, you know, i ultimately made the decision that i would like to return and command sts-134. so at that point i went to my boss peggy witson, the chief of the astronaut office, and we had a discussion about you know, the next step. so i ll turn it over to peggy. well, mark obviously had to make the first part of this