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Alan Stern
Alan Stern
American Scientist
Born: Nov 22, 1957
People Science Solar Space Think You
Related authors: Ben Carson Carl Sagan E. O. Wilson George Washington Carver Isaac Asimov Margaret Mead Neil deGrasse Tyson W. Edwards Deming
I'm hopeful that commercial space exploration will takeoff. To really fuel the spaceflight revolution will require an investment of hundreds of billions of dollars a year, and I think that's only going to happen in the commercial sector - if there are large profits to be made. Alan Stern
Space Will Made Year Revolution Think Hundreds Sector Hopeful Only Investment Dollars Commercial Going Space Exploration Happen Fuel Really Require Exploration Billions Large Billions Of Dollars Profits
Typically in science, individual scientists make up their minds about scientific fact or theory one at a time. We don't take votes. We just don't vote on quantum mechanics, the theory of relativity, why the sky is blue, or anything else. Alan Stern
Time Vote Science Sky Else Minds Relativity About Fact Individual Take Votes Make Make Up Quantum Scientific Quantum Mechanics Scientific Fact Scientists Up Blue Just Anything Anything Else Theory Mechanics Why
Science is really about individual experts reaching a consensus. Alan Stern
Science About Individual Reaching Experts Really Consensus
One of the implications of the discovery of the Kuiper Belt and its many small planets is that many scientists now think of the solar system as having not two but three zones. Alan Stern
Solar Three Think Solar System System Having Small Implications Scientists Discovery Planets Many Now Zone Two Belt
I actually started my career in planetary science with a master's thesis on Pluto. Alan Stern
Science Master Pluto Planetary Thesis Actually Started Career
I like the planets because they are real places that you can go to and send machines to. Faraway astronomy - galactic astronomy and extra-galactic astronomy - is really cool stuff, but to me, it's about destinations. Alan Stern
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Why would you listen to an astronomer about a planet? Alan Stern
You Astronomer Would About Listen Planet Why
Liquids may have existed on the surface of Pluto in the past. Alan Stern
Past Pluto Surface Existed Liquid May In The Past
Back before the Kuiper Belt was discovered, Pluto did look like a misfit that didn't belong with either the terrestrials or the giant planets. Alan Stern
Before Back Giant Pluto Like Look Discovered Did Either Planets Belong Belt
Either data supports the observations or they don't. Voting doesn't work in science. Alan Stern
Work Science Voting Data Observations Supports Either
Whether there's even an ocean on Pluto deep inside is a question I hope New Horizons can address in indirect ways. Alan Stern
Hope Ocean Address Ways Inside Horizons Pluto Indirect New Question Whether Deep Even Deep Inside
In the mind of the public, the word 'planet' carries a significance lacking in other words used to describe planetary bodies... many members of the public assume that alleged 'non-planets' cease to be interesting enough to warrant scientific exploration. Alan Stern
Words Word Mind Assume Other Enough Members Significance Carries Alleged Scientific Cease Lacking In Other Words Interesting Public Planet Bodies Planetary Exploration Used Warrant Many Describe
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 on a first reconnaissance mission. Alan Stern
First Battery Horizons Brought Small Bear High-Tech Powerful New Mission Most Most Powerful Instrumentation Scientific Very Spacecraft Roughly Ever
It's interesting - Pluto's almost a brand unto itself. It's the farthest. It's the most diminutive of the classical planets. It's been maligned by astronomers. It's always the one with all the question marks in the back of the textbook in the table. I think children identify with it because it's smaller, kind of cute. Alan Stern
Cute Think Back Marks Kind Table Classical Pluto Smaller Almost Most Unto Identify Because Always Been Question Textbook Maligned Itself Brand Children Interesting Planets Farthest
I call Pluto the harbinger. Alan Stern
Pluto Call
The costs of badly-run NASA projects are paid for with cutbacks or delays in NASA projects that didn't go over budget. Hence the guilty are rewarded and the innocent are punished. Alan Stern
Innocent Projects Punished Guilty Delays Costs Over Budget NASA Go Rewarded Paid Hence
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 clearer. Alan Stern
Leadership Innovation Pressure More Only Price Clearer Make Practices Domain Commercial Human Common Foster Ever
Having a diverse suite of U.S.-manned spaceflight systems to access space is inherently robust. Alan Stern
Space Suite Systems Diverse Having Robust Access Inherently
The basic story for Golden Spike is that we discovered a way to create do-it-yourself Apollo programs for other countries. Alan Stern
Do-It-Yourself Other Other Countries Programs Way Spike Countries Discovered Golden Story Apollo Create Basic
Pluto and its brethren are the most populous class of planets in our solar system. Alan Stern
Class Solar Our Solar System System Pluto Most Planets Brethren
Pluto is the new Mars. Alan Stern
Mars Pluto New
Pluto has strong atmospheric cycles: it snows on the surface; the snows sublimate and go back into the atmosphere each 248 year orbit. Alan Stern
Strong Year Back Atmosphere Atmospheric Pluto Surface Go Orbit Cycles Each
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 not 'rewriting the textbook' - we're writing the textbook from scratch. Alan Stern
You People Writing Those Horizons Purely About Raw New Scientific Answer Textbook Questions Any Going Scratch Rewriting Ask Exploration
If the Pluto mission was a cat, then it would've been dead long ago because they only get nine lives, and we've had significantly more than nine stoppages and odd twists and turns. Alan Stern
Long Nine Pluto More Only Cat Had Mission Dead Because Odd Been Than Get Then Turns Lives Twists
We made more than just scientific discoveries... we rediscovered how much people love exploration. Alan Stern
Love People Made More Rediscovered Scientific How How Much Discoveries Than Just Much Exploration
If two billion people wanted to watch a robot fly by Pluto, imagine what it will be like when the first humans step on Mars. It'll be the most unifying event anybody could ever put on. Alan Stern
People Fly Will First Robot Mars Pluto Could Step Put Like Most Anybody Wanted Unifying Billion Event Ever Watch Humans Two Imagine
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