Triangulation 215: Alan Stern: Principal Investigator for New Horizons

Alan Stern is an American engineer and planetary scientist. He is the principal investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Chief Scientist at Moon Express.

New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe that was launched as part of NASA's New Frontiers program. The spacecraft was launched to study Pluto, its moons and the Kuiper belt, performing flybys of the Pluto system and one or more other Kuiper belt objects.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guest: Alan Stern

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