15 Dreamy Quotes By - Alan Stern

15 Dreamy Quotes By - Alan Sterne

I expect New Horizons will see more that Hubble cannot see.

— Alan Stern

CASIS has to succeed because for it not to succeed would be a huge setback for the International Space Station program.

— Alan Stern

It's very hard to motivate yourself and others with only one goal - particularly if it's complex and you might not get there until years down the road. That's why intermediate goals are so important.

— Alan Stern

The New Horizons Pluto mission will be the first mission to a binary object and will help us understand everything from the origin of Earth's moon to the physics of mass transfer between binary stars.

— Alan Stern

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

There are lots of really interesting little planets out there in the Kuiper Belt, but Pluto's the only one that's got all the cool attributes.

— Alan Stern

Every mission has life-or-death moments.

— Alan Stern

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

Human beings have long wondered whether they are alone in the universe.

— Alan Stern

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

Going to the Kuiper Belt is like an archaeological dig into the history of the solar system.

— Alan Stern

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

Pluto and its brethren are the most populous class of planets in our solar system.

— Alan Stern

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

If you put Earth out beyond Neptune, you wouldn't be able to call it a planet because it couldn't clear its zone.

— Alan Stern

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