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It shouldn't be so difficult to determine what a planet is. When you're watching a science fiction show like 'Star Trek' and they show up at some object in space and turn on the viewfinder, the audience and the people in the show know immediately whether it's a planet or a star or a comet or an asteroid.
— Alan Stern
Tags: space, people, you, science

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If two billion people wanted to watch a robot fly by Pluto, imagine what it will be like when the first humans step on Mars. It'll be the most unifying event anybody could ever put on.
— Alan Stern
Tags: will, step, people, fly
If the Pluto mission was a cat, then it would've been dead long ago because they only get nine lives, and we've had significantly more than nine stoppages and odd twists and turns.
— Alan Stern
Tags: only, dead, more, long
The Kuiper belt region, which I call the third zone because it lies beyond the rocky terrestrial planets and beyond the giant planets, is a bizarre frontier.
— Alan Stern
Tags: call, which, because, beyond
Just speaking for myself, I think the return of people to the Moon has a lot to offer for understanding the formation and evolution of terrestrial worlds; so would the exploration of near-Earth asteroids by people.
— Alan Stern
Tags: think, moon, people, myself
Having a diverse suite of U.S.-manned spaceflight systems to access space is inherently robust.
— Alan Stern
Tags: systems, robust, having, space
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