17 Quotes by Michael Zolensky

When we saw the huge impacts, we all started laughing and talking excitedly.

Much of the earth's water and organics perhaps came from comets. This can give us a history of organics in the solar system.

But we opened the tray, and everything went exactly right. It's fabulous.

We thought we might be able to see grains if they were large enough, but we really didn't know what would happen. They might just disintegrate and explode or pass all the way through.

There are so few of them and they are so tiny that we have little idea how to study them today.

You'll see a lot of information coming out quickly from these samples.

We had a long time to come up with all of the things that could go wrong.

We were really worried about that and got more and more worried as time went by. So when we opened the tray just two days ago in the lab, we were pleased to find that everything went exactly right -- just fabulous. We couldn't have done a better job catching these particles.

We thought maybe the collectors wouldn't open properly, or maybe they would be covered with gunk from the spacecraft.