These guys have worked real hard to be here. To represent our community like this, being the last (Class 4A) team left in the city, we want to represent the whole city.

The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.

The number of first-class concepts being submitted to NASA by the space science community for these smaller missions just keeps on climbing.

I challenged them one more time and they came through for us. It's like going to Universal Studios and Disneyland. You want to ride that rollercoaster and not get off. We're going to stay on this one for a while.

It just didn't happen for us today.

There was no energy, there was no enthusiasm, there was no will to get better. They told me they weren't having fun. Well, it's no fun to get beat by 35 or 40, we know that. There still has to be some effort.