We have always stressed in this mission that we are stardust. Our planet and even our selves have a direct relationship to the particles we brought back.

We're in excellent shape. We've done almost everything we have to do in the entire mission...only thing left is to come into the Earth.

It's clearly stressed, but they're performing brilliantly,

We did this mission to collect the most primitive materials we could in the solar system. We went to a comet that formed at the edge of the solar system, far from the sun under very cold conditions. We're confident that it was made out of the initial building blocks of our solar system.

We're seeing a variety of things that we know absolutely come from a comet.

We fully expect some of the comet particles to be older than the sun.