[Apollo grins at Clay, something in him relaxing when his friend manages to talk himself out of his worries.] I'm supposed to be the pessimistic worrying one here, not you. You can't jinx the whole mission when you're finally getting your chance. You'll be fine. Just like always.

[It's reflex at this point, to fall back on that familiar phrase. But it's worked for Clay as well as himself so well in the past, why bother using anything else?]

I can last just fine without your car. All you have to do is get back safely.

[As excited as he is for Clay, the many disasters from Starbuck's last trip into space is still fresh in his mind. The space center will probably be doing everything they can to make sure the HAT-1 incident doesn't repeat itself, but well. Apollo can't help but worry anyway.]