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...
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It's now our job to be good stewards of the spacecraft. and to learn to fly it in the real environment that it was built for.
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Its surface is only 40 degrees above absolute zero, covered with exotic ice. We think it's going to be like kids in a candy store, arriving in a system like this.
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Not even Tombaugh and his mentors could have forecast how fascinating their new planet would turn out to be.
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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.
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It took us more years to get the mission beyond the Washington beltway than it will take to cross the entire Solar System.
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Around 20 percent of Kuiper Belt objects have a moon. We think a lot of astronomers are going to be looking now for multiple satellite systems.
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The Kuiper Belt is the largest structure in the solar system. We used to think Pluto was a misfit.
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The U.S. has a spacecraft on its way to Pluto, on to the Kuiper belt and on to the stars.
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These policies represented the hopes and the plans of those that were murdered in the Holocaust. They had taken out policies in order to protect their families.
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I will say that this has been our project mascot for a long time, this little ground-down pencil. And it represents perseverance to get this project under way, to get it built, to get it launched and now to get it to Pluto.
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The payload that we're flying is a much more advanced payload than we could have flown, for example, in the last Jupiter launch window ten years ago.
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It's really going spectacularly well. The whole approach to testing a spacecraft is to walk before you run.
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It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours.
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It's ... strictly coincidental that Pluto of course was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons.