Alan Stern : (6)

" I’ve been on 26 space missions; they range from suborbital to orbital to shuttle experiments to planetary missions. " - Alan Stern

" Liquids may have existed on the surface of Pluto in the past. " - Alan Stern

" How can an adjective in front of a noun not describe the noun? There are dwarf stars, but they’re still considered stars. " - Alan Stern

" In the mind of the public, the word ‘planet’ carries a significance lacking in other words used to describe planetary bodies… many members of the public assume that alleged ‘non-planets’ cease to be interesting enough to warrant scientific exploration. " - Alan Stern

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

" 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