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Alan Stern
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Alan Stern is the coauthor of the new book Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto, which gives an insider’s...
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“There is a phrase from World War I describing warfare as “months of boredom punctuated by moments of terror.” The same applies to long spacecraft missions. And it was a long and frankly terrifying hour as they awaited the hoped-for signal to return from New Horizons.”
― Chasing New Horizons: Inside Humankind's First Mission to Pluto
― Chasing New Horizons: Inside Humankind's First Mission to Pluto
“When word of the astronomers’ vote in Prague reached the New Horizons team, reactions ranged from indifferent (“Who cares what astronomers think? They’re not the experts in this.”), to bemused, to annoyed, to seriously pissed off. As Fran Bagenal succinctly put it, “Dwarf people are people. Dwarf planets are planets. End of argument.”
― Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
― Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
“No doubt, there was something that drew people to this particular launch—a sense of something epochal, a passing of the torch from Voyager to a new generation of explorers who had been inspired by Voyager. You could feel it; it was in the air, now it was a new generation’s chance to explore never-before-seen worlds.”
― Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
― Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
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