[John Jamieson]

Don't think it would be a good idea to slow the ISS to 12,000 mph ............. on second thought, let me think about that a while.

[OReilly]

Don't think it would be a good idea to slow the ISS to 12,000 mph ............. on second thought, let me think about that a while.

I'm talking about having inspected the fairly obvious possibility of tile damage from the anomaly on launch. If a problem was detected then the de-orbit burn would not have taken place. Their speed would be much higher while waiting for the rescue rendezvous by ISS.

[CharacterCounts]

He's talking about changing the orbit of he space station so that the shuttle could have flown to it before it tried to de-orbit.