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Alan Stern

1957 - Today

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Sol Alan Stern (born November 22, 1957) is an American engineer, planetary scientist and space tourist. He is the principal investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Chief Scientist at Moon Express. Stern has been involved in 24 suborbital, orbital, and planetary space missions, including eight for which he was the mission principal investigator. One of his projects was the Southwest Ultraviolet Imaging System, an instrument which flew on two space shuttle missions, STS-85 in 1997 and STS-93 in 1999. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alan Stern is the 627th most popular astronomer (up from 629th in 2019), the 16,912th most popular biography from United States (up from 17,052nd in 2019) and the 132nd most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Alan Stern ranks 627 out of 644. Before him are Anja Cetti Andersen, Eva Grebel, Peter Kušnirák, Linda A. Morabito, Ulrika Babiaková, and Timothy B. Spahr. After him are C. Michelle Olmstead, Zdeněk Moravec, Heidi Hammel, Tetsuo Kagawa, James Gall, and Amy Mainzer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Alan Stern ranks 755. Before him are Amanda Redman, Jeh Johnson, PZ Myers, Alan Duncan, Jan Hooks, and Alan Curbishley. After him are Chris Anderson, Mark Johnson, Denise Nickerson, David Beasley, David Fairclough, and Sunil Mittal.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alan Stern ranks 16,919 out of 20,380. Before him are Stephanie Grisham (1976), Jerrika Hinton (1981), Jason Hervey (1972), LeToya Luckett (1981), Tim McCord (1979), and Ariel Winter (1998). After him are Shayna Baszler (1980), Mack 10 (1971), Michael Zegen (1979), Aziz Ansari (1983), Becca Fitzpatrick (1979), and Mike Simpson (1950).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Alan Stern ranks 132. Before him are David J. Tholen (1955), Chad Trujillo (1973), Jan Kleyna (2000), Geoffrey Marcy (1954), Jeff T. Alu (1966), and Martha P. Haynes (1951). After him are C. Michelle Olmstead (1969), Heidi Hammel (1960), Amy Mainzer (1974), and Robert S. McMillan (2000).

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