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For planetary explorers like us, there is little that can compare to the sighting of activity on another solar system body. This has been…

— Carolyn Porco

There's something cool about being involved in new missions to other planets.

— David Grinspoon

I'm a strong advocate of new missions to Venus.

— David Grinspoon

Plans are great, but missions are better.

— Seth Godin

I've been on 26 space missions; they range from suborbital to orbital to shuttle experiments to planetary missions.

— Alan Stern

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

— Marilynne Robinson

The bottom line is that finding orphan planets - small, faint, and located who-knows-where - is not for the faint of heart. The task…

— Seth Shostak

Planets look about the same here as they do to you on the Earth because we really aren't that much closer. Our home, the…

— Sunita Williams

My mission is to try to get a lot more global view.

— Howard Rheingold

When I first went to Hubble, as an astronomer and as a scientist, it was a dream come true. And as an astronaut, the…

— John M. Grunsfeld

I think that, a lot of times, people have this idea that the solar system is entirely explored, that we have sent spacecraft to…

— Carrie Nugent

I like the planets because they are real places that you can go to and send machines to. Faraway astronomy - galactic astronomy and…

— Alan Stern