Tom Duxbury Solar Quotations

We took a spacecraft and flew it five years. But in these five years, we went back to the origin of time - to the origin of our solar system.

The Stardust project has delivered to the international science community material that has been unaltered since the formation of our solar system.

The science that's going to come out of this, that's going to tell us about the early formation of our solar system, the role that comets have played in the formation of Earth and ourselves, that will unfold over the next few years. The science that this project is returning will be unprecedented.

We feel like parents awaiting the return of a child who left us young and innocent, who now returns holding answers to the most profound questions of our solar system.

(The research) will involve looking at particles that were kept in the far reaches of our universe in a deep freeze since the beginning of our solar system.