22 Quotes by Paul Hill

We are in really good shape. The vehicle is in pristine condition. All tests are good, we are ready to go. De-orbit is not a risk free activity. Our big risk now would be weather.

We really couldn't get past where station had grown to without adding this air lock and adding the station arm ... Now that we have those, the gate is wide open for us to keep right on building.

There haven't been many days in the last 2 1/2 years that I came in to work and wasn't thinking about them at some point or another.

We are going to be pretty darn happy to get to wheels stop and see this good crew step off. It'll be a huge sense of accomplishment having gotten through the last two years and demonstrated that we still know how to do this very difficult and dangerous business.

everything since the first 10 minutes of the mission has gone perfectly, and most of the stuff that has gone perfectly is stuff we didn't even know how to do 2 1/2 years ago.

During de-orbit, I'm sure I'll have a thought or two about Rick Husband and his crew. At wheel stop, I'm sure all of us are going to think a lot about the 107 crew.

De-orbit is not perfectly risk-free, but the vehicle is in pristine condition. Our big risk now, aside from the inherent risk of de-orbiting through a fireball, would be weather.

De-orbit is not perfectly risk-free, but the vehicle is in pristine condition. It's all downhill from a certain perspective.

De-orbit is not a risk-free activity. We will be pretty darned happy to get to wheelstop and see this good crew step off Discovery.