American - Scientist | November 22, 1957 -
The solar system is completely wide open. Almost anywhere we go, I'm sure we would learn a lot.
Alan Stern
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I'm the one who originally coined the term 'dwarf planet,' back in the nineteen-nineties.
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That so many binary or quasi-binary KBOs exist came as a real surprise to the research community.
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We're going to find Marses and maybe Earths out in the solar system's attic of the Oort Cloud and the Kuiper Belt.
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CASIS has to succeed because for it not to succeed would be a huge setback for the International Space Station program.
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CSF and its members believe strongly in the exploration of space of all kinds, including commercial purposes.
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Pluto has a very interesting history, and there is a lot of work that we need to do to understand this very complicated place.
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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.
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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.
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We were very surprised to find out that Pluto is still geologically alive. It has upended our ideas of how planetary geophysics works.
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You could not have predicted the amazing discoveries at Pluto, even though we have been to a couple of objects in the solar system that were at least a little analogous to Pluto.
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We made more than just scientific discoveries... we rediscovered how much people love exploration.
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