Quotations

«It's a good day to be us.»

«Today we honored the Columbia crew. We brought Discovery home safely. It's a great day.»

«We always knew this was a test flight that was going to give us a lot of information. We have some things that we learned and that we have to go to work on.»

«I think that now it's clear what it is that we need to go work on. Today we honored the Columbia crew; we've brought the Discovery crew home safe.»

«It's great to be here, and it's great to be at this point. I think we're on our way.»

«You just can't watch it on TV and get a feel for the devastation that I've seen down here on the Gulf Coast. It's just unbelievable,»

«Today, we honored the Columbia crew. We brought Discovery home safely. You want to know how I feel? I feel fantastic. It's good to be us today.»

«Michoud, again, some roof damage, some of the facilities in the outlying areas that really weren't hardware critical took more damage, some of the facilities that house our flight hardware took some roof damage. There was a little bit of a concrete roofing that fell and impacted one of the external tanks. We haven't been able to evaluate that yet, it's still ongoing. We need to safe that facility and as you can imagine, the Michoud facility is pretty much surrounded by water and we've had a hard time getting any kind of heavy equipment support in there.»

«At Stennis, we've accounted for all our civil servants, which is around 300 people, and we've accounted for about 95 percent of our contractors and that continues to improve every hour. Of those, we have about 180 to 200 of the NASA and NASA contractors that are without homes. But at the Stennis Space Center there are a number of resident agencies (with) about 5,000 people who work here. ... We know right now that as many as 800 to 900 people within this community that work here are without homes.»

«You can't just watch it on TV and get a feel for the devastation that I have seen down here on the Gulf Coast. It's just unbelievable.»