Thanks. Guiding myself past the missles occurred to me but perhaps I should have noted in my earlier post that my controllers do not respond with direction in the freefall as they do during other parts of the game. I lose control of the controller and I thought this was all part of the game trying to get me to attempt a new maneauver of some type.

I have both wireless and hard wire controllers and neither of them will "steer" the freefall...the controller simply does nothing to Ratchet during the freefall and I cannot move him right, left, up or down. And without moving him he gets blow up each and every time. Am I missing something with a controller setting? Is it an issue with the game or PS3? The PS3 and game are both spanking brand new.