[Alan Binder, a professor at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla., said it is unlikely Congress will act to bail out airlines, as it did after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.] Barring some catastrophe, ... going to let the chips fall where they may.

The trick is that we want to find out if it's really water that we're mapping.

Then we don't have to say that we infer water, ... We will know that it's water that we found.

It got 10 times more data than was expected. It has flown perfectly.

It has never failed us.

Clearly I'm going to crash the spacecraft anyway, ... We're trying to do the most useful thing scientifically.

We had a tantalizing indication (after Apollo) of what the global structure of the moon was but when you've only seen 20 percent maximum of the surface, you don't know what you've got, ... Now we know exactly what's going on. This is a big jump forward.