Alan Stern
Alan Stern
Sol Alan Sternis an American engineer and planetary scientist. He is the principal investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Chief Scientist at Moon Express...
led missions nasa planets since
This is the capstone of the missions to the planets that NASA has led since the 1960s.
initial last mission
This is the capstone of the initial reconnaissance of the planets, the first mission to the last planet.
atmosphere five knows people snow
Some people think its 20 years off and some people think its five years off. No one really knows when Pluto's atmosphere will snow out and collapse.
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We really expect the mission to be transformational. This is the capstone of the original visits to the planets. It takes us 4 billion miles away and 4 billion years back in time.
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We're realizing just how much there is to the deep, outer solar system. I think it's exciting that textbooks have to be rewritten, over and over.
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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.
call everest mission planetary
I like to call this mission the Everest of planetary exploration. It's really fantastic.
billion journey
In a real sense, this is not just a 4 billion-mile journey, but also a journey 4 billion years back in time.
calling discovery result scientific
I?m calling the discovery of the two new satellites the first scientific result of New Horizons.
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I jokingly say now that New Horizons is the first mission to the nearest example of the last planet.
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It provides for us a window 41/2 billion years back in time to observe the formation conditions of giant planets. This is a little bit about rewriting the textbooks about the outer planets.
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SWUIS operated flawlessly. We think we've got some great data in our pocket including some spectacular data on the mapping of the moon.
data great including mapping operated pocket
SWUIS operated flawlessly, ... We think we've got some great data in our pocket including some spectacular data on the mapping of the moon.
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This is in a very real sense the capstone of the initial reconnaissance of the planets that the United States has led for the world since the 1960s.