“I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets. Most astronauts were reluctant to discuss UFOs.”
Gordon Cooper
“There's room for another planet between Mars and Jupiter. Given that planets formed everywhere else, why couldn't another planet have formed there?”
John Chambers
“This is the capstone of the initial reconnaissance of the planets, the first mission to the last planet.”
Alan Stern
“There are 400 billion stars in the galaxy, and obviously we are not going to point the Terrestrial Planet Finder at every one of them.”
Margaret Turnbull
“Asteroids are the leftover building blocks of rocky planets like Earth. We can't directly see other terrestrial planets, but now we can study their dusty fossils.”
Charles Beichman
“Pluto is so unlike any planet we've ever visited. It's this strange little duck, sitting out there, this mixture of rock and ice but with an atmosphere. There is so much to learn about this planet.”
Bill Gibson
“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.”
