“Deep Impact and Stardust were engineered first and foremost to be able to achieve their prime missions, interaction with comets Tempel 1 and Wild 2. Although these primary missions have been the top priority, each has some capacity remaining that we are willing to make available to the space science community.”
Susan Niebur
“We have always stressed in this mission that we are stardust. Our planet and even our selves have a direct relationship to the particles we brought back.”
Donald Brownlee
“Stardust.”
Neil Gaiman
“Remember when atmospheric contaminants were romantically called stardust?”
Lane Olinghouse
“Friend, you are a divine mingle-mangle of guts and stardust. So hang in there! If doors opened for me, they can open for anyone.”
Frank Capra
“The fundamental point is that we ultimately are made of this stuff -- 'stardust' from the interstellar medium.”
Andrew Westphal
“A philosopher once asked: "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now *that's* a question.”
