25 Quotes by Tom Duxbury

When everything comes together and works as expected it is very thrilling and very rewarding.

When we saw that drop chute open, we knew we were home safe.

We took a spacecraft and flew it five years. But in these five years, we went back to the origin of time - to the origin of our solar system.

We've flown through the worst of it and we're still in contact with our spacecraft.

Stardust has performed flawlessly these last seven years ... and deserves a rest for a while.

You'll see people wearing protective gear. Our concern is (contamination) from us to the particles, not the other way.

We are totally prepared, both for if everything goes perfectly and if the spacecraft acts up a little bit.

We sang our spacecraft to sleep today with a melody of digital ones and zeros. Stardust has performed flawlessly these last seven years and 2.88 billion miles, and deserves a rest for a while, like the rest of the team.

We feel like parents awaiting the return of a child who left us young and innocent, who now returns holding answers to the most profound questions of our solar system.