Alan Stern
Alan Stern
Sol Alan Sternis an American engineer and planetary scientist. He is the principal investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Chief Scientist at Moon Express...
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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 took us more years to get the mission beyond the Washington beltway than it will take to cross the entire Solar System.
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Its surface is only 40 degrees above absolute zero, covered with exotic ice. We think it's going to be like kids in a candy store, arriving in a system like this.
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It's ... strictly coincidental that Pluto of course was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons.
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It's ... strictly coincidental that Pluto, of course, was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons.
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The U.S. has a spacecraft on its way to Pluto, on to the Kuiper belt and on to the stars.
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It provides for us a window 41/2 billion years back in time to observe the formation conditions of giant planets. This is a little bit about rewriting the textbooks about the outer planets.
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It's now our job to be good stewards of the spacecraft. and to learn to fly it in the real environment that it was built for.
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It's really going spectacularly well. The whole approach to testing a spacecraft is to walk before you run.
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This is a whole new chapter in the Pluto story.
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This is, in a very real sense, the capstone of the initial reconnaissance of the planets that the United States has led for the world since the 1960s.
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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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The United States is going to go down in history for the initial reconnaissance of the planets.