"Spin it on the longitudinal axis. That’ll fling the loose dust off, and whenever these, uh, episodes happen again . . . well, spinning will spread the stresses evenly across the whole spacecraft. So you won’t get that pitting, that, uhm, that sputtering . . ." Van was losing it. Those words he’d just said, "ongoing operational anomaly." That was a regular tongue twister. "You tell him, Mike."