James Graf Quotations

We are getting into the dangerous portion of the mission. The cruise has not been easy, but now we are starting to enter into the realm where we have lost two spacecraft in the last 15 years.

We're getting into the dangerous portion of the mission.

We're right on the money right now, heading toward our encounter with Mars.

If we don't succeed in firing the thrusters, we will fly right by.

If we don't succeed in firing the thrusters, it will be a flyby spacecraft.

We will have a fire hose of data coming back instead of bringing it back through a little garden hose.

We have accomplished an awful lot, but we are getting to the dangerous part of the mission.

This spacecraft will return more data than all previous Mars missions combined.

This spacecraft is going to rewrite the science textbooks on Mars.

So we're going to be sitting in the control center for about 15 minutes just holding our breath and squeezing - being white knuckled - and waiting to get the information back.

It's time we start peeling back the onion layer and start looking at Mars from different vantage points.

It was picture-perfect. We could not have scripted anything better.

I'm greatly relieved. We could not have scripted something better.