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.
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These are showing us views of another world - a world we've never seen the likes of.Tom Duxbury
It was like a hole just opened up in the middle of the sky.
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You'll see people wearing protective gear. Our concern is (contamination) from us to the particles, not the other way.
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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.
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It was a long 10 years and when it was over it was surprising it was over.
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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.
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