It's almost like dodging a bullet. It's going to take a few trips around the planet to know for sure, but from what we can see so far it's a near-perfect entry into the orbit.

We think that conditions like those today have existed for billions of years.

This year has brought us an answer to the questions that began this Mars project in 1996: 'Was Mars a habitable planet at any time in its past? Did water ever persist on the planet's surface?

Those first trips were to Zaire, and we made sure that 100 percent of the donations we received made it to the field, ... Dr. Morgan, an orthopedic surgeon, did 65 operations in a little over six weeks. Dr. Pueda went to a hospital with no electric power and took out a little girl's spleen by flashlight. He saved her life while we all stood around and held Wal-Mart flashlights so he could see.

I wish I had time to take you all on field trips.

We dodged a bullet considering the way things went for us this past week with injuries.