In order to get to the comet we had to go three times around the sun.

I owe my career to my education from Purdue and all that I have achieved.

It was like a hole just opened up in the middle of the sky.

That's a culmination of over ten years worth of work. To see (the capsule) in one piece on the floor of the desert is just very moving.

It?s only 30 inches long, but it?s a pretty mighty craft. Even with a hard landing, we believe we will recover most ? if not all ? of our science.

(The research) will involve looking at particles that were kept in the far reaches of our universe in a deep freeze since the beginning of our solar system.

There's been this controversy over whether comets are dirty snowballs or icy dirtballs.

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

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

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.