The air conditioning was off. The flight controllers were sitting there wiping sweat. If they were dealing with any spacecraft issues, which first day out of the box a lot of spacecraft have, you can't concentrate like that. - Alan Stern Quotes
The air conditioning was off. The flight controllers were sitting there wiping sweat. If they were dealing with any spacecraft issues, which first day out of the box a lot of spacecraft have, you can't concentrate like that. Alan Stern
 

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SWUIS operated flawlessly. We think we've got some great data in our pocket including some spectacular data on the mapping of the moon. - Alan Stern Quotes

SWUIS operated flawlessly. We think we've got some great data in our pocket including some spectacular data on the mapping of the moon.

Alan Stern

 
This is in a real sense the capstone of the initial missions to explore the planets. Pluto, its moons and this part of the solar system are such mysteries that New Horizons will rewrite all of the textbooks. - Alan Stern Quotes

This is in a real sense the capstone of the initial missions to explore the planets. Pluto, its moons and this part of the solar system are such mysteries that New Horizons will rewrite all of the textbooks.

Alan Stern

 
It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter…13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours. - Alan Stern Quotes

It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter…13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours.

Alan Stern

 Moon
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. - Alan Stern Quotes

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.

Alan Stern

 Earth
It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most populous class of planet in our solar system and we have never sent a mission to this class. - Alan Stern Quotes

It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most populous class of planet in our solar system and we have never sent a mission to this class.

Alan Stern

 Earth
This is the capstone of the missions to the planets that NASA has led since the 1960s. - Alan Stern Quotes

This is the capstone of the missions to the planets that NASA has led since the 1960s.

Alan Stern

 
This is the capstone of the initial reconnaissance of the planets, the first mission to the last planet. - Alan Stern Quotes

This is the capstone of the initial reconnaissance of the planets, the first mission to the last planet.

Alan Stern

 
We really expect the mission to be transformational. This is the capstone of the original visits to the planets. It takes us 4 billion miles away and 4 billion years back in time. - Alan Stern Quotes

We really expect the mission to be transformational. This is the capstone of the original visits to the planets. It takes us 4 billion miles away and 4 billion years back in time.

Alan Stern

 
I ... was not comfortable with launching without backup power. I've been working on this for 17 years ... Two or three days doesn't mean a hill of beans. - Alan Stern Quotes

I ... was not comfortable with launching without backup power. I've been working on this for 17 years ... Two or three days doesn't mean a hill of beans.

Alan Stern

 Power
We'll be like kids in a candy shop. - Alan Stern Quotes

We'll be like kids in a candy shop.

Alan Stern

 Kids
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