That's good news, ... I'm hearing we're likely to be able to get [HST] into 2008 now.

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To get two projects ... and to have both so high on the list, I think that says a lot about how we do conservation in Maine.

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That's not to say it's not challenging, ... but the team is making a convincing story.

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We are absolutely delighted by the successful recovery of the Stardust samples. Years of planning, preparation and teamwork paid off handsomely this morning. We're very proud to have played a role in another of NASA's exciting voyages of exploration and look forward to learning what Stardust will tell us about the origins of our solar system.

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Every kilogram of material that you put on a heat shield that's in excess of what you need for a reasonable margin … that's a kilogram of payload that you can't put down on the planet. By reducing the uncertainty of how these things perform, it greatly improves our performance of the whole mission.

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NASA just doesn't have enough money, and they are being asked to make some vary hard choices. It's necessary to honor our international commitments [to the space station], but its basically coming out of the planetary exploration budget.

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The team continues to pull rabbits out of the hat.

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The capsule showed excellent performance.

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