Alan Stern Mission Quotations

I like to call this mission the Everest of planetary exploration. It's really fantastic.

I jokingly say now that New Horizons is the first mission to the nearest example of the last planet.

It took us more years to get the mission beyond the Washington beltway than it will take to cross the entire Solar System.

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.

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

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