22 Quotes by Paul Hill

We're going to take the time and snap some pictures from some angles we've haven't seen since the last orbiter was there.

There are folks that have the impression that NASA needs to fly this flight so that we can demonstrate that we really understand how to fly in space again. Well, that's not technically true. If we don't know that this is all going to work, we're not ready to fly ... You know you can do it again, but you got to do it again.

If we get an answer we really don't like from the tests and analysis it would give us an opportunity to go outside and do something about this, although we don't expect that to be a likely outcome.

Having one or two things slow us down isn't particularly unexpected. We are going to have a very robust spacecraft.

Microsoft's behavior, in conjunction with its monopoly in the desktop market, may be viewed as an aggressive strategy to eliminate competition in the Kerberos server market.

(We were) making more and more decisions with less and less engineering data to support them.

We do have six healthy batteries online. So we are back up to full strength.

We've done more than we've ever done to minimize the risk going uphill. There are still some uncertainties (about repairing the shuttle), but we are still a lot farther down the road than we were two years ago. And that is 20 years after we declared (the repairs) to be technically impossible.

Today was a busy day inside Discovery and the station. Everyone was involved in one form of transfer or another.