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.

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.

It's not much, but still it's so much that we're almost overwhelmed. The first grain we worked on, we haven't even cut into the main part of the particle yet.

There's almost no gravity at the surface. If you were standing on [the surface], you could jump into orbit.

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.

Everything is working toward having an excellent, clean building that's in good shape for years to come.