CSF and its members believe strongly in the exploration of space of all kinds, including commercial purposes. — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
We're in the space exploration business, and the outer solar system is a wild, wooly place. We haven't explored it very well. — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter...13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours. — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
We made more than just scientific discoveries... we rediscovered how much people love exploration. — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
In the mind of the public, the word 'planet' carries a significance lacking in other words used to describe planetary bodies... many… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
People ask, 'What are the scientific questions you're going to answer?' New Horizons doesn't have any of those; it's purely about raw… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
New Horizons isn't just visiting Pluto; it's visiting this entire region. Whatever it finds, this will be a signal moment for planetary… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
This is in a real sense the capstone of the initial missions to explore the planets. Pluto, its moons and this part… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
Just speaking for myself, I think the return of people to the Moon has a lot to offer for understanding the formation… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
Competition-driven innovation and price pressure that commercial practices foster can only make human spaceflight ever more common and U.S. leadership in this domain ever… — Alan Stern Copy Share
Of course Pluto is a planet: It's massive enough to have its shape controlled by gravity rather than material strength, which is the hallmark… — Alan Stern Copy Share
It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most populous class… — Alan Stern Copy Share
The Kuiper belt region, which I call the third zone because it lies beyond the rocky terrestrial planets and beyond the giant planets, is… — Alan Stern Copy Share
I think if you were between maybe 6 and 16, there was nothing like Apollo, and I wonder if there can be something like… — Alan Stern Copy Share
If you put Earth out beyond Neptune, you wouldn't be able to call it a planet because it couldn't clear its zone. — Alan Stern Copy Share
When we first sent missions to Jupiter, no one expected to find moons that would have active volcanoes. And I could go down a… — Alan Stern Copy Share
Pluto is still active four and a half billion years into its history. It was expected that small planets like Pluto would cool off… — Alan Stern Copy Share
The Kuiper Belt is the largest mapped structure in our planetary system, three times as big as all the territory from the sun out… — Alan Stern Copy Share
If two billion people wanted to watch a robot fly by Pluto, imagine what it will be like when the first humans step on… — Alan Stern Copy Share
To keep everyone invested in your vision, you have to back up a little bit and really analyze who the different stakeholders are and… — Alan Stern Copy Share
We're going to find Marses and maybe Earths out in the solar system's attic of the Oort Cloud and the Kuiper Belt. — Alan Stern Copy Share
One of the implications of the discovery of the Kuiper Belt and its many small planets is that many scientists now think of the… — Alan Stern Copy Share
CASIS has to succeed because for it not to succeed would be a huge setback for the International Space Station program. — Alan Stern Copy Share
