(28 quotes found)
“Stardust has performed flawlessly these last seven years ... and deserves a rest for a while.”
Tom Duxbury
“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.”
“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.”
“It was a long 10 years and when it was over it was surprising it was over.”
“(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.”
“When everything comes together and works as expected it is very thrilling and very rewarding.”
“I owe my career to my education from Purdue and all that I have achieved.”
