Jeimu - who had been hanging in the background for most of the discussion - comes around and looks at Endeavour, whose face has taken on a pinched look. Clearly the shuttle doesn't want to talk about it.

She sighs. "I can tell you the aftermath," she said quietly.

Vanessa nods, and Jeimu launches into a very academic discourse on what had happened, the nature of the repairs they had had to make, and finished with an explanation as to why the repairs weren't top notch.

"It's like binding carbon to carbon. It'll stick for awhile, but then it'll just slide apart." A small grin. "That's what we were fixing up before we came and got you."