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This is really a great day for NASA and the exploration of our solar system.
ANDREW DANTZLER As far as I'm concerned, we just hit the ball out of the park. This is the Holy Grail of modern-day ...
CAROLYN PORCO The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyo...
WALTER LANG![]()
We're in the space exploration business, and the outer solar system is a wild, wooly place. We h...
ALAN STERN![]()
The Cosmos extends, for all practical purposes, forever. After a brief sedentary hiatus, we are resu...
CARL SAGAN The solar system that likely will be formed around this star will include planets orbiting in differ...
JAN HOLLIS This is a solar system that ran out of gas.
SCOTT GAUDI![]()
We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecti...
EDITH WIDDER All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how...
SARAH ZETTEL As of now it has been analyzed and estimated that our Sun’s mass consists of around 99.9% of the t...
THOMAS VAZHAKUNNATHU It's almost like a cryogenic preservation chamber of what the solar system was like 4 billion years ...
MAX MUTCHLER This is the first reconnaissance mission of this region of the solar system. It's the only one of th...
HAL WEAVER![]()
The public has an incredible capacity for appreciating the wonder of our planet, our solar system, o...
ELLEN STOFAN We did this mission to collect the most primitive materials we could in the solar system. We went to...
DON BROWNLEE The planets in our solar system, the precursors anyway, probably went through this stage.
DEREK RICHARDSON![]()
Going to the Kuiper Belt is like an archaeological dig into the history of the solar system.
ALAN STERN We decided what we wanted in our house and built the solar system around that. Our house is an affor...
ALEX JAMES Virtually all of the atoms in our bodies and in the Earth were in interstellar grains - stardust gra...
DONALD BROWNLEE![]()
When I was a kid, I was a bit of a space geek. I loved the space program and all things NASA. I woul...
SIMON SINEK Over the past year there has been significant yardage gained for the Vision for Space Exploration. T...
COURTNEY STADD As we have for 30 years, Unisys supports NASA in its dedication to advancing aeronautics research an...
GREG BARONI![]()
We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is re...
EDGAR MITCHELL It's always exciting to find a new object in the solar system. This gives us further support that a ...
HAL WEAVER NASA cannot succeed alone in pursuing the exploration vision. It's a breathtakingly full dance card.
COURTNEY STADD This is one of a very rare class of objects that may give us a glimpse into what our solar system ma...
DEAN HINES Once solved, the severe handicaps imposed on space exploration by the weight and chemical limitation...
DONALD A. WOLLHEIM![]()
Phenomenal people. When Andy (Schumacher) went, that was a really tough day for me.
GUY FIERI It is more evidence that our solar system is a dynamic place, somewhere very active.
MARK SHOWALTER For planetary explorers like us, there is little that can compare to the sighting of activity on ano...
CAROLYN PORCO The solar system is not a stable and quiet place.
JACK LISSAUER It really is the new frontier, the outer frontier of our solar system, we're finding out there's jus...
RICHARD BINZEL It's those few unusual things that really tell you the story of the solar system.
JOEL PARKER![]()
Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our...
ANNIE DILLARD![]()
Our solar system is actually a wild frontier, teeming with different, diverse places: planets and mo...
CARRIE NUGENT These results tell us that up to half of the material in the disk is ice. This fits in with the pict...
KLAUS PONTOPPIDAN This is a great day, ... This is a great day for this organization and for Enid.
STEVE ANDERSON The disk of dust orbiting a star, similar to the dust we feel formed our solar system.
MICHAEL WERNER![]()
We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space...
JAMES LOVELOCK We have great confidence in Andy and that he will manage and run the program at a high level during ...
BOB GOIN A partnership with AOL allows NASA to leverage our unique content, people and facilities. Through th...
ANGELA PHILLIPS DIAZ This comet formed at very edge of the solar system ... out by pluto ... and spent all its lifetime o...
DON BROWNLEE![]()
Decreasing the budget on the space exploration is nothing but a great treason to humanity! Space exp...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON The event went really, really well. All-in-all it was a great day for our organization and a great i...
DOUG CLARK![]()
Pluto is just the brightest of the many objects in the Kuiper Belt. It's a fossil relic of the forma...
ALAN STERN We are delighted to be working with Tom Hanks, Playtone, a stellar lineup of all-star actors and our...
GREG FOSTER Because this belt has more asteroids than ours, collisions are larger and more frequent, which is wh...
GEORGE RIEKE The discovery of a solar system object larger than Pluto is very exciting.
WILHELM ALTENHOFF This will be humankind's first planned venture outside the solar system.
LES JOHNSON![]()
It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most pop...
ALAN STERN We're collecting things that are very ancient and even older than our solar system. We are literally...
DON BROWNLEE We are confident [the comet] was made out of the initial building blocks of our solar system.
DON BROWNLEE Uranus is one of the most chaotic and disruptive systems in the solar system.
MARK SHOWALTER![]()
We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our ...
LARRY NIVEN Not that chance dominated events in the early Solar System, for scientific determinism was also func...
ERIC CHAISSON The station is a great proving ground for exploration. We've learned a lot about operating internati...
BILL GERSTENMAIER![]()
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. We are very pleased to have secured the exploration rights to this interesting block and to be parti...
BRIAN HALL![]()
The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do o...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON![]()
It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
DAN QUAYLE![]()
[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system.
DAN QUAYLE We looked at every GPS system, and are excited to be the first in our area to offer this great ameni...
TOM JANSA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Much of the earth's water and organics perhaps came from comets. This can give us a history of organ...
MICHAEL ZOLENSKY At the end of the day, this is the biggest solar power bill in the nation.
BERNADETTE CHIARO At the end of the day, this is the biggest solar power bill in the nation.
BERNADETTE DEL CHIARO If Congress had not restored the funding, the opportunity for reaching the last unvisited planet in ...
LOUIS FRIEDMAN In a sense Saturn is almost like a miniature solar system.
LINDA SPILKER![]()
Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It is burdened with old and aging infrastructure, frayed at the edges, costly, some times unreliable...
COURTNEY STADD We use solar at our home and business, and we probably save about 60% on our utility bills. Once you...
DONNA NAPOLITANO All of the thrusting is in the inner solar system, then it coasts.
LES JOHNSON![]()
Exploration really is the essence of the human spirit, and to pause, to falter, to turn our back on ...
FRANK BORMAN The spirit of exploration that brought European settlers to the Americas lives on today through the ...
JEANNE ZEIDLER![]()
The big picture comes when you step back and realize this is the one generation making the atlas of ...
SETH SHOSTAK Saturn is the most photogenic planet in the solar system.
CAROLYN PORCO It's much closer to our solar system than anything we've found so far.
ALAN BOSS Four and a half billion years ago, all of the matter of the solar system, including us, was part of ...
DON BURNETT This is a big night for NASA. We're back.
SEAN O'KEEFE The fundamental reason for this mission is that we are collecting what we believe are the best prese...
DON BROWNLEE This will give new solar businesses confidence and investors enough confidence to fund those solar b...
BEN LUCE![]()
No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or noth...
CARL SAGAN Mars is just for some reason harder to get a mission to than other places in the solar system.
ROB LOCK![]()
It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
DAN QUAYLE It's kind of cool knowing there's a six-mile-wide rock in our solar system with my name on it,
BILL COOKE NASA has and will always continue to involve colleges and university students. As the agency moves f...
DWAYNE BROWN For it goes without saying that this great recognition at this time will aid tremendously our effort...
ERNEST LAWRENCE We think comets make up a huge amount of stuff out in the solar system. We'd like to know the minera...
LAWRENCE GROSSMAN![]()
Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start...
PAUL DAVIES This is a great day for me, and a great victory for the team also.
HEIDI MARTIN Shana is a decisive leader who will bring key policy and political skills to the front office of NAS...
GEORGE WHITESIDES![]()
This is a happy day for me. I think the tears that you see basically is that I have really enjoyed t...
JERRY RICE This is one of the great landmarks in our whole system. It's almost hallowed ground.
BOB TURNER This is a historic day for Palestinians -- this is a great day.
ISMAIL HANIYA It's thrilling. We have samples of a comet from the edge of the solar system.
DONALD BROWNLEE If you wish to study what the solar system is made of you study comets.
DONALD YEOMANS Work is not rabbit, its learning and NASA’s work is a spacewalk.
LILY CHATTERJEE This is such a relief for the team, ... They did a great job all day and this group really deserves ...
SCOTT DIXON Andy did a great job with this colt, ... I didn't think we could be any worse than second in here an...
ANDY MILLER These observations of the moon have been a challenging and highly successful technological achieveme...
JENNIFER WISEMAN
ANDREW DANTZLER As far as I'm concerned, we just hit the ball out of the park. This is the Holy Grail of modern-day ...
CAROLYN PORCO The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyo...
WALTER LANG
We're in the space exploration business, and the outer solar system is a wild, wooly place. We h... ALAN STERN
The Cosmos extends, for all practical purposes, forever. After a brief sedentary hiatus, we are resu... CARL SAGAN The solar system that likely will be formed around this star will include planets orbiting in differ...
JAN HOLLIS This is a solar system that ran out of gas.
SCOTT GAUDI
We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecti... EDITH WIDDER All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how...
SARAH ZETTEL As of now it has been analyzed and estimated that our Sun’s mass consists of around 99.9% of the t...
THOMAS VAZHAKUNNATHU It's almost like a cryogenic preservation chamber of what the solar system was like 4 billion years ...
MAX MUTCHLER This is the first reconnaissance mission of this region of the solar system. It's the only one of th...
HAL WEAVER
The public has an incredible capacity for appreciating the wonder of our planet, our solar system, o... ELLEN STOFAN We did this mission to collect the most primitive materials we could in the solar system. We went to...
DON BROWNLEE The planets in our solar system, the precursors anyway, probably went through this stage.
DEREK RICHARDSON
Going to the Kuiper Belt is like an archaeological dig into the history of the solar system. ALAN STERN We decided what we wanted in our house and built the solar system around that. Our house is an affor...
ALEX JAMES Virtually all of the atoms in our bodies and in the Earth were in interstellar grains - stardust gra...
DONALD BROWNLEE
When I was a kid, I was a bit of a space geek. I loved the space program and all things NASA. I woul... SIMON SINEK Over the past year there has been significant yardage gained for the Vision for Space Exploration. T...
COURTNEY STADD As we have for 30 years, Unisys supports NASA in its dedication to advancing aeronautics research an...
GREG BARONI
We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is re... EDGAR MITCHELL It's always exciting to find a new object in the solar system. This gives us further support that a ...
HAL WEAVER NASA cannot succeed alone in pursuing the exploration vision. It's a breathtakingly full dance card.
COURTNEY STADD This is one of a very rare class of objects that may give us a glimpse into what our solar system ma...
DEAN HINES Once solved, the severe handicaps imposed on space exploration by the weight and chemical limitation...
DONALD A. WOLLHEIM
Phenomenal people. When Andy (Schumacher) went, that was a really tough day for me. GUY FIERI It is more evidence that our solar system is a dynamic place, somewhere very active.
MARK SHOWALTER For planetary explorers like us, there is little that can compare to the sighting of activity on ano...
CAROLYN PORCO The solar system is not a stable and quiet place.
JACK LISSAUER It really is the new frontier, the outer frontier of our solar system, we're finding out there's jus...
RICHARD BINZEL It's those few unusual things that really tell you the story of the solar system.
JOEL PARKER
Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our... ANNIE DILLARD
Our solar system is actually a wild frontier, teeming with different, diverse places: planets and mo... CARRIE NUGENT These results tell us that up to half of the material in the disk is ice. This fits in with the pict...
KLAUS PONTOPPIDAN This is a great day, ... This is a great day for this organization and for Enid.
STEVE ANDERSON The disk of dust orbiting a star, similar to the dust we feel formed our solar system.
MICHAEL WERNER
We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space... JAMES LOVELOCK We have great confidence in Andy and that he will manage and run the program at a high level during ...
BOB GOIN A partnership with AOL allows NASA to leverage our unique content, people and facilities. Through th...
ANGELA PHILLIPS DIAZ This comet formed at very edge of the solar system ... out by pluto ... and spent all its lifetime o...
DON BROWNLEE
Decreasing the budget on the space exploration is nothing but a great treason to humanity! Space exp... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON The event went really, really well. All-in-all it was a great day for our organization and a great i...
DOUG CLARK
Pluto is just the brightest of the many objects in the Kuiper Belt. It's a fossil relic of the forma... ALAN STERN We are delighted to be working with Tom Hanks, Playtone, a stellar lineup of all-star actors and our...
GREG FOSTER Because this belt has more asteroids than ours, collisions are larger and more frequent, which is wh...
GEORGE RIEKE The discovery of a solar system object larger than Pluto is very exciting.
WILHELM ALTENHOFF This will be humankind's first planned venture outside the solar system.
LES JOHNSON
It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most pop... ALAN STERN We're collecting things that are very ancient and even older than our solar system. We are literally...
DON BROWNLEE We are confident [the comet] was made out of the initial building blocks of our solar system.
DON BROWNLEE Uranus is one of the most chaotic and disruptive systems in the solar system.
MARK SHOWALTER
We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our ... LARRY NIVEN Not that chance dominated events in the early Solar System, for scientific determinism was also func...
ERIC CHAISSON The station is a great proving ground for exploration. We've learned a lot about operating internati...
BILL GERSTENMAIER
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. We are very pleased to have secured the exploration rights to this interesting block and to be parti...
BRIAN HALL
The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do o... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
It's time for the human race to enter the solar system. DAN QUAYLE
[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system. DAN QUAYLE We looked at every GPS system, and are excited to be the first in our area to offer this great ameni...
TOM JANSA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Much of the earth's water and organics perhaps came from comets. This can give us a history of organ...
MICHAEL ZOLENSKY At the end of the day, this is the biggest solar power bill in the nation.
BERNADETTE CHIARO At the end of the day, this is the biggest solar power bill in the nation.
BERNADETTE DEL CHIARO If Congress had not restored the funding, the opportunity for reaching the last unvisited planet in ...
LOUIS FRIEDMAN In a sense Saturn is almost like a miniature solar system.
LINDA SPILKER
Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It is burdened with old and aging infrastructure, frayed at the edges, costly, some times unreliable...
COURTNEY STADD We use solar at our home and business, and we probably save about 60% on our utility bills. Once you...
DONNA NAPOLITANO All of the thrusting is in the inner solar system, then it coasts.
LES JOHNSON
Exploration really is the essence of the human spirit, and to pause, to falter, to turn our back on ... FRANK BORMAN The spirit of exploration that brought European settlers to the Americas lives on today through the ...
JEANNE ZEIDLER
The big picture comes when you step back and realize this is the one generation making the atlas of ... SETH SHOSTAK Saturn is the most photogenic planet in the solar system.
CAROLYN PORCO It's much closer to our solar system than anything we've found so far.
ALAN BOSS Four and a half billion years ago, all of the matter of the solar system, including us, was part of ...
DON BURNETT This is a big night for NASA. We're back.
SEAN O'KEEFE The fundamental reason for this mission is that we are collecting what we believe are the best prese...
DON BROWNLEE This will give new solar businesses confidence and investors enough confidence to fund those solar b...
BEN LUCE
No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or noth... CARL SAGAN Mars is just for some reason harder to get a mission to than other places in the solar system.
ROB LOCK
It's time for the human race to enter the solar system. DAN QUAYLE It's kind of cool knowing there's a six-mile-wide rock in our solar system with my name on it,
BILL COOKE NASA has and will always continue to involve colleges and university students. As the agency moves f...
DWAYNE BROWN For it goes without saying that this great recognition at this time will aid tremendously our effort...
ERNEST LAWRENCE We think comets make up a huge amount of stuff out in the solar system. We'd like to know the minera...
LAWRENCE GROSSMAN
Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start... PAUL DAVIES This is a great day for me, and a great victory for the team also.
HEIDI MARTIN Shana is a decisive leader who will bring key policy and political skills to the front office of NAS...
GEORGE WHITESIDES
This is a happy day for me. I think the tears that you see basically is that I have really enjoyed t... JERRY RICE This is one of the great landmarks in our whole system. It's almost hallowed ground.
BOB TURNER This is a historic day for Palestinians -- this is a great day.
ISMAIL HANIYA It's thrilling. We have samples of a comet from the edge of the solar system.
DONALD BROWNLEE If you wish to study what the solar system is made of you study comets.
DONALD YEOMANS Work is not rabbit, its learning and NASA’s work is a spacewalk.
LILY CHATTERJEE This is such a relief for the team, ... They did a great job all day and this group really deserves ...
SCOTT DIXON Andy did a great job with this colt, ... I didn't think we could be any worse than second in here an...
ANDY MILLER These observations of the moon have been a challenging and highly successful technological achieveme...
JENNIFER WISEMAN
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