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It's interesting - Pluto's almost a brand unto itself. It's the farthest. It's the most diminutive of the classical planets. It's been maligned by astronomers. It's always the one with all the question marks in the back of the textbook in the table. I think children identify with it because it's smaller, kind of cute.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Almost Always Back Because Been Brand Children Classical Cute Farthest Identify Interesting Itself Kind Marks Most Planets Pluto Question Smaller Table Textbook Think Unto I Think

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I call Pluto the harbinger.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Call Pluto

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As a scientist in charge of space sensors and entire space missions before I was at NASA, I myself was involved in projects that overran. But that's no excuse for remaining silent about this growing problem or failing to champion reform.

~Alan Stern

Topics: About Before Champion Charge Entire Excuse Failing Growing Involved Missions Myself Nasa No Excuse Problem Projects Reform Remaining Scientist Sensors Silent Space

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The costs of badly-run NASA projects are paid for with cutbacks or delays in NASA projects that didn't go over budget. Hence the guilty are rewarded and the innocent are punished.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Budget Costs Delays Go Guilty Hence Innocent Nasa Over Paid Projects Punished Rewarded

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America's space program has been the envy and inspiration of the world. It has made landmark scientific discoveries that are a lasting legacy of this nation's greatness. It has studied Earth in ways no other nation can match.

~Alan Stern

Topics: America Been Discoveries Earth Envy Greatness Inspiration Landmark Lasting Legacy Made Match Nation Other Program Scientific Space Space Program Studied Ways World

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Are governments the only entities that can build human spacecraft? No - actually, every human spacecraft ever built for NASA was built by private industry.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Actually Build Built Entities Ever Every Governments Human Industry Nasa Only Private

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Competition-driven innovation and price pressure that commercial practices foster can only make human spaceflight ever more common and U.S. leadership in this domain ever clearer.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Clearer Commercial Common Domain Ever Foster Human Innovation Leadership Make More Only Practices Pressure Price

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It is only by freeing NASA from routine human transport to low-Earth orbit that we can afford to once again see American astronauts exploring distant worlds.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Afford Again American Astronauts Distant Exploring Freeing Human Nasa Once Only Orbit Routine See Transport Worlds

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The basic story for Golden Spike is that we discovered a way to create do-it-yourself Apollo programs for other countries.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Apollo Basic Countries Create Discovered Do-It-Yourself Golden Other Other Countries Programs Spike Story Way

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If you go to planetary science meetings and hear technical talks on Pluto, you will hear experts calling it a planet every day.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Calling Day Every Every Day Experts Go Hear Meetings Planet Planetary Pluto Science Talks Technical Will You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: November 22nd, 1957

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