29 Quotes by Richard Cook

We're in a state where we're not quite sure what's happened,

We're sprouting new ideas as we go along, and the plan is more or less the same.

There are a lot of different paths that you can be on. We just have to wait to see which one.

MSL is like a chemist on Mars. From a technological point of view, people will be fairly amazed by both the size and the capability of MSL. It will certainly be able to drive circles around MER to a certain extent. Not speed wise. But from how long MSL can go every day...it will be able to do much more.

Obviously, the entry, decent and landing is a very big challenge. I think we're going down the path...retiring a lot of the risk in the technology. But there's still the whole validation process...and still a lot of effort ahead to make that work.

If it lasts for five times that...I wouldn't be all that shocked. But we certainly don't want to go into it thinking that way.

We've looked at a lot of the technical issues and, hopefully, have our arms around a lot of them.

We are in the midst for proceeding with our planning for our next communications opportunity, which will begin tomorrow.

We didn't get a signal at 8:30 p.m. We hoped we would.