[grecy]

> The spacecraft they asked Cooper to pilot was a type of craft that crashed during his testing of the ship

The part that's boggling my mind is they said he crashed because of one of the first "gravity variations"..... which we now know he (or future humans) created.

So I'm assuming him crashing was somehow important to the overall plan, but I have not quite figured it out yet. Maybe they didn't want him to be one of the Lazarus people, because then he wouldn't have been around to "help" his daughter get the hints.