Paul Hill Quotations

We're going to take the time and snap some pictures from some angles we've haven't seen since the last orbiter was there.

There are folks that have the impression that NASA needs to fly this flight so that we can demonstrate that we really understand how to fly in space again. Well, that's not technically true. If we don't know that this is all going to work, we're not ready to fly ... You know you can do it again, but you got to do it again.

If we get an answer we really don't like from the tests and analysis it would give us an opportunity to go outside and do something about this, although we don't expect that to be a likely outcome.

Having one or two things slow us down isn't particularly unexpected. We are going to have a very robust spacecraft.

Microsoft's behavior, in conjunction with its monopoly in the desktop market, may be viewed as an aggressive strategy to eliminate competition in the Kerberos server market.

(We were) making more and more decisions with less and less engineering data to support them.

We do have six healthy batteries online. So we are back up to full strength.

We've done more than we've ever done to minimize the risk going uphill. There are still some uncertainties (about repairing the shuttle), but we are still a lot farther down the road than we were two years ago. And that is 20 years after we declared (the repairs) to be technically impossible.

Today was a busy day inside Discovery and the station. Everyone was involved in one form of transfer or another.

We are in really good shape. The vehicle is in pristine condition. All tests are good, we are ready to go. De-orbit is not a risk free activity. Our big risk now would be weather.

We really couldn't get past where station had grown to without adding this air lock and adding the station arm ... Now that we have those, the gate is wide open for us to keep right on building.

There haven't been many days in the last 2 1/2 years that I came in to work and wasn't thinking about them at some point or another.

We are going to be pretty darn happy to get to wheels stop and see this good crew step off. It'll be a huge sense of accomplishment having gotten through the last two years and demonstrated that we still know how to do this very difficult and dangerous business.

everything since the first 10 minutes of the mission has gone perfectly, and most of the stuff that has gone perfectly is stuff we didn't even know how to do 2 1/2 years ago.

During de-orbit, I'm sure I'll have a thought or two about Rick Husband and his crew. At wheel stop, I'm sure all of us are going to think a lot about the 107 crew.

De-orbit is not perfectly risk-free, but the vehicle is in pristine condition. Our big risk now, aside from the inherent risk of de-orbiting through a fireball, would be weather.

De-orbit is not perfectly risk-free, but the vehicle is in pristine condition. It's all downhill from a certain perspective.

De-orbit is not a risk-free activity. We will be pretty darned happy to get to wheelstop and see this good crew step off Discovery.

It'll be a huge sense of accomplishment having gotten through the last two years and demonstrated that we still know how to do this very difficult and dangerous business.

If you believe abortion is a lethal force, you should oppose the force and do what you have to do to stop it. May God help you to protect the unborn as you would want to be protected.

Before I go in (the mission control) building, I assume I'll have a thought or two about the 107 crew.

You only get one shot at it since we are only a big glider.