25 Quotes by Tom Duxbury

This spacecraft is a comet explorer. It has the tools to do a lot more.

This thing went like clockwork. To see that thing in one piece on the floor of the desert is very moving.

These are showing us views of another world - a world we've never seen the likes of.

The science that's going to come out of this, that's going to tell us about the early formation of our solar system, the role that comets have played in the formation of Earth and ourselves, that will unfold over the next few years. The science that this project is returning will be unprecedented.

It was a long 10 years and when it was over it was surprising it was over.

The Stardust project has delivered to the international science community material that has been unaltered since the formation of our solar system.

Ten years of planning and seven years of flight operations were realized early this morning when we successfully picked up our return capsule off of the desert floor in Utah.

This is not the finish line. This is just the intermediate pit stop.

There's at least one more we could reach for another flyby.