It was kind of frustrating, but everyone's relieved and really very happy this morning. It was a flawless launch.

We want to make sure the launch and recovery are absolutely flawless.

We've not been able to place these brush strokes into the context of a wider canvas.

We've been waiting so long . . . I'm just kind of numb at this point. The excitement will come when the data starts flowing, in May, and we see the Earth like we've never seen it before.

We haven't seen Earth before like this, and we're going to discover new things about Earth and clouds that we've not experienced before.

It's been a long journey. And the science community is absolutely excited about this, naturally, because of the new nature of these observations.