48 Quotes by Donald Brownlee

We're in excellent shape. We've done almost everything we have to do in the entire mission...only thing left is to come into the Earth.

We're seeing a variety of things that we know absolutely come from a comet.

We were totally overwhelmed by the ability to actually see this so quickly and so straightforwardly.

We're approaching the end of a fantastic voyage. This is the farthest anything from Earth has traveled and come back. Soon we'll be able to examine the building blocks that formed the solar system 4.6 billion years ago.

If it was formed in our solar system, then it had to be transported from the hottest regions to the coolest.

When they formed, they were either red-hot or white-hot and we found them in the Siberia of the solar system.

This was our first view of the comet dust. We are the first people in the history of the planet to see comet dust.

Last Sunday, after seven years in space traveling nearly three billion miles, Stardust landed in the Great Salt Lake Desert with a treasure from when the solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago. We should have more than one million particles larger than one micron in diameter.

Our capsule is half the size and one-fourth the mass of Genesis,