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George Diller/STS-130 Landing Commentator: And here they come. Our commander, George Zamka.

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George Zamka/STS-130 Commander: Well, good evening everybody. We, we're back as we came.

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It's dark outside. Hey, I just want to say that STS-130 is mission complete. We're safe on deck here in,

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at Kennedy Space Center and that's due to the work of a lot of people.

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We had a great team. We had tremendous hardware to bring up. Node 3 was pristine.

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Cupola was beautiful both in design and care before we left. And Endeavour, oh my goodness, what a, what a machine.

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She was, she was perfect throughout the 
flight and we brought her back safe and

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sound due to a great mission control team as well.

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So, thanks to all who were involved and I'm going to pass it on to Terry.

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Terry Virts/STS-130 Pilot: It is so great to be back on Earth.

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And I just want to echo Zambo's thoughts of 
thanking all the folks here at Kennedy Space Center and also in

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Houston, and also around the world, especially our Italian partners for making this mission possible.

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What a phenomenal flight that we had. It's going to take some time to digest all that we did.

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It was, it was an amazing experience. Great to be back on Earth and that's it, thanks.

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Kathryn Hire/STS-130 Mission Specialist: It is great to be back at KSC. Thanks so much for the good weather here.

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And again, thanks to all the folks who processed the space shuttle, the orbiter, the tanks, the boosters -- all,

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all over the country that contribute to that. But especially here at the Kennedy Space Center,

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thanks again for providing us such a 
wonderful spacecraft and I hope we didn't 
beat it up too much because we

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know that you're going to be turning it around one more time to fly it again. So, thanks so much.

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Stephen Robinson/STS-130 Mission Specialist: Hey, it is indeed great to be back in Florida.

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And, you know, a lot of people worked on the space shuttle in the Space Shuttle Program for decades before we even ever got to fly.

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And, a lot of, most of those folks are retired now,

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looking back and this is your legacy -- this amazing thing you created. So thank you to you, too.

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Nicholas Patrick/STS-130 Mission 
Specialist: It's hard to believe we're back 
after two weeks in space,

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visiting the amazing International Space 
Station, and after a year of training, really 
hard to believe.

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There's one, of course, one more really important and interesting phase of this flight left,

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which is sharing the experience with everybody here on Earth and we're really looking forward to that. So, thank you all.

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Robert Behnken/STS-130 Mission Specialist: Well, when you go last, there's not a lot left to say.

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But, I do want to thank all the folks here at KSC for providing us such a good ship.

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All the folks in Italy for providing us Node 3 and the cupola in such tip-top shape as well.

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We're just glad to be back here in Florida on our first attempt to come in for a landing,

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which is really exciting to do it on the first time.

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And happy to put a nice capstone on such a successful mission. Thank you all.

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And I'll pass it over to George, here, if he's got anything final to say.

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George Zamka/STS-130 Commander: 
Thank you, all. It's time for us to hit the

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showers and start getting used to life on Earth again. Good night.

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