Life

"If this ever gets back to earth we risk all human life."

"We don't know what it is."

"You don't know what it can do!"

"The specimen's location is unknown."

"The manner in which we first meet life beyond earth may determine the character of all our subsequent relations. Let us never forget the fatal impact we've had upon innumerable people on this earth. People who trusted us, befriended us, and who we destroyed by our thoughtlessness. The life we know. Perhaps that is where we ought to begin, with ourselves."

"Each passing year our estimate of the probability of life in space increase. More and more scientists feel that contact is no longer something beyond our dream but is a natural event in the history of mankind that will perhaps occur in the lifetime of many of us."

"No man can fully grasp how far and how fast we have come. There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again. As we set sail, we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked. This nation will continue to be a pioneer in the new frontier of space."
[Voice of John F. Kennedy]

Hugh Derry: "The mission's primary goal has been achieved. We're looking at a large single cell, biological. I'd hate to jump the gun, but I think it's time. We're looking at the first proof of life beyond earth."
David Jordan: "I'm finally a daddy. It's going to be a big custody battle over this one."