Colleen Hartman Quotations

What we know about Pluto today could fit on the back of a postage stamp. The textbooks will be rewritten after this mission is completed.

What we know about Pluto could be printed on the back of a postage stamp. The textbooks will be rewritten when this mission is completed. The true nature of this mission is to find the answers to questions we don't even know how to ask.

We had a very gut-wrenching decision. We thought at the time that there was too much risk to go forward.

We had a very gut-wrenching decision and significant management and technical problems to overcome.

I would be negligent if I didn't remind folks that there are still so many challenges ahead of us.

What we had here was a very gut-wrenching decision and significant management and technical hurdles to overcome, and we're happy to be going forward.

Right now, what we know about Pluto could be written on the back of a postage stamp. After this mission, we'll be able to fill textbooks.

We've just lived through at least 27 minutes of high anxiety. The nail-biting is finally over but my nails are actually gone.

Everything we know about Pluto could basically fit on a postcard. We are truly going to a new frontier.

The things we are doing here are tough. They are not easy. This is a tough business. To have something last this long and reach two destinations and explore them with this resolution and specificity is a very difficult job.

It's the fastest spacecraft ever launched. It will get to the Moon in nine hours?it will get to Jupiter in one year and nine months.

It's going to be a very exciting year.

Galileo is one of the most successful outer worlds missions that the Earth has ever launched. This spacecraft has given us some unbelievable discoveries.

This is a great milestone to have accomplished, but it's just one of many milestones before we can open the champagne. Once we are in the prime science orbit, the spacecraft will perform observations of the atmosphere, surface, and subsurface of Mars in unprecedented detail.