New horizons Quotes by Alan Stern

10 New horizons quotes by Alan Stern

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Stern’s words often point toward the unknown with a grounded optimism. Ten short statements here give a taste of his perspective on pushing beyond familiar limits.

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Whether there's even an ocean on Pluto deep inside is a question I hope New Horizons can address in indirect ways.

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I expect New Horizons will see more that Hubble cannot see.

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New Horizons isn't just visiting Pluto; it's visiting this entire region. Whatever it finds, this will be a signal moment for planetary…

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New Horizons is a very high-tech, small, roughly 1,000-pound spacecraft with the most powerful battery of scientific instrumentation ever brought to bear…

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The New Horizons Pluto mission will be the first mission to a binary object and will help us understand everything from the…

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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…

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I think that one of the things that will come out of the New Horizons mission is that the public will take…

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There was a time when Pluto - which NASA's New Horizons spacecraft at last explored in 2015, a mission I led -…

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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…

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I think when people see Pluto revealed by New Horizons, its satellite system, its complex surface, its atmosphere, I think they'll have…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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The Kuiper belt region, which I call the third zone because it lies beyond the rocky terrestrial planets and beyond the giant planets, is…

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I think if you were between maybe 6 and 16, there was nothing like Apollo, and I wonder if there can be something like…

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If you put Earth out beyond Neptune, you wouldn't be able to call it a planet because it couldn't clear its zone.

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Why would you listen to an astronomer about a planet?

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When we first sent missions to Jupiter, no one expected to find moons that would have active volcanoes. And I could go down a…

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Pluto is still active four and a half billion years into its history. It was expected that small planets like Pluto would cool off…

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The Kuiper Belt is the largest mapped structure in our planetary system, three times as big as all the territory from the sun out…

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If two billion people wanted to watch a robot fly by Pluto, imagine what it will be like when the first humans step on…

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To keep everyone invested in your vision, you have to back up a little bit and really analyze who the different stakeholders are and…

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We're going to find Marses and maybe Earths out in the solar system's attic of the Oort Cloud and the Kuiper Belt.

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One of the implications of the discovery of the Kuiper Belt and its many small planets is that many scientists now think of the…

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CASIS has to succeed because for it not to succeed would be a huge setback for the International Space Station program.

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