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Alan Stern Quotes
«It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter?13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours.»
Author: Alan Stern
«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.»
Author: Alan Stern
«It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most populous class of planet in our solar system and we have never sent a mission to this class.»
Author: Alan Stern
«Just as a Chihuahua is still a dog, these ice dwarfs are still planetary bodies. The misfit becomes the average. The Pluto-like objects are more typical in our solar system than the nearby planets we first knew.»
Author: Alan Stern
«This is in a real sense the capstone of the initial missions to explore the planets. Pluto, its moons and this part of the solar system are such mysteries that New Horizons will rewrite all of the textbooks.»
Author: Alan Stern
«This is the capstone of the missions to the planets that NASA has led since the 1960s.»
Author: Alan Stern
«I ... was not comfortable with launching without backup power. I've been working on this for 17 years ... Two or three days doesn't mean a hill of beans.»
Author: Alan Stern
«We'll be like kids in a candy shop.»
Author: Alan Stern
«Two or three days doesn't mean a hill of beans.»
Author: Alan Stern
«The air conditioning was off. The flight controllers were sitting there wiping sweat. If they were dealing with any spacecraft issues, which first day out of the box a lot of spacecraft have, you can't concentrate like that.»
Author: Alan Stern