19 Quotes by Jim Graf

Oh I am very relieved. It was picture perfect.

This is obviously the critical maneuver. We will not see the end of the burn.

They say you're born with it, the gift, ... I think that's the case with Nick. He just grew up wanting to be a player.

There is no time for the team as a whole to react ... so we have on board all the programs we need to carry out, and the spacecraft has to do it all on its own.

They're bringing their data back, we think, through a straw. We're going to start opening up the fire hose ... We're going to be awash in data that will allow us to better understand the planet as a whole.

It's the most technologically advanced satellite we've ever sent to another planet.

It was picture-perfect. We couldn't have scripted it any better.

It will rewrite the science textbooks on Mars.

The celebration feels great, but it will be very brief because before we start our main science phase, we still have six months of challenging work to adjust the orbit to the right size and shape.