Capstone Quote by Alan Stern

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

— Alan Stern

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

— Alan Stern

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

— Alan Stern

Pluto has a very interesting history, and there is a lot of work that we need to do to understand this very complicated place.

— Alan Stern

Pluto is the new Mars.

— Alan Stern

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 exploration... We're…

— Alan Stern

“Pluto will always be a planet in my book. That’s because my book was published before Pluto was blacklisted by planetary scientists.”

— Jarod Kintz

Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we've seen in the solar system.

— Alan Stern

We explore because we are human and we want to know. I hope that Pluto will help us on that journey.

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Alan Stern

Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's... you've got no business doing that if you want…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Discovering that our solar system has many more planets than we ever expected, and that most of them are ice dwarfs rather than like…

— Alan Stern