The Mission Is the Mission: How Astronaut Butch Wilmore Stays Focused When Everything Goes Wrong

Join Shannon Bream as she welcomes NASA astronaut and Navy veteran Butch Wilmore to discuss his new book, Stuck: An Astronaut’s Hope Through the Unexpected. With the calm of a man who has landed fighter jets on aircraft carriers and the conviction of someone who has staked his life on the Word of God, Butch takes Shannon inside the moment he knew something was terribly wrong, losing thruster after thruster on approach to the International Space Station, unsure whether he had the capability to get his crew back to Earth. He unpacks the discipline of compartmentalizing fear, the astronaut standard of “know everything and perform it well,” and why the months he spent unexpectedly in space were never really “stuck” at all, they were a placement. Butch also shares his framework for what he calls saving faith: the difference between knowing Scripture is true, believing it is true, and trusting it will actually do what it says, a distinction that held him steady above the Earth and that he believes can hold any of us steady right where we are.