It was a complete stretch to get it to do that, which saved the mission.

I will be crying because I'm sentimental. But don't tell anyone I said that!

It's almost like having a troubled child that ends up graduating from law school.

That loss forced us to concentrate on the satellites. And from my perspective, the satellites are where the action is. That's where the big surprises came.

It's been a fabulous mission for planetary science, and it is hard to see it come to an end.

The engineers had to redesign the software, reprogram the tape recorder and had to get Galileo to do data compression,