Alan Stern Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

10 Famous Quotes by Alan Stern
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“SWUIS operated flawlessly. We think we've got some great data in our pocket including some spectacular data on the mapping of the moon.”
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“This is in a real sense the capstone of the initial missions to explore the planets. Pluto, its moons and this part of the solar system are such mysteries that New Horizons will rewrite all of the textbooks.”
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“It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter…13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours.”
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“It used to be that Pluto was a misfit. Now it turns out that Earth is the misfit. Most planets in the solar system look like Pluto, and not like the terrestrial planets.”
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“It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most populous class of planet in our solar system and we have never sent a mission to this class.”
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“This is the capstone of the missions to the planets that NASA has led since the 1960s.”
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“This is the capstone of the initial reconnaissance of the planets, the first mission to the last planet.”
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“We really expect the mission to be transformational. This is the capstone of the original visits to the planets. It takes us 4 billion miles away and 4 billion years back in time.”
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“I ... was not comfortable with launching without backup power. I've been working on this for 17 years ... Two or three days doesn't mean a hill of beans.”
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“We'll be like kids in a candy shop.”
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