Alan Stern – Quotes Meaning

"We’re in the space exploration business, and the outer solar system is a wild, wooly place. We haven’t explored it very well."

The great and mostly unexplored regions of our solar system outside of Earth's orbit are frequently described by renowned American planetary scientist Alan Stern using striking imagery. He regularly highlights in his writing how little we know about these far-off places, even in spite of tremendous …

"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

American planetary scientist and space program manager Alan Stern has been instrumental in a number of NASA missions. The New Horizons mission, which he oversaw as principal investigator, was one of his noteworthy accomplishments. The purpose of the spacecraft New Horizons was to investigate the far…