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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 private astronaut. 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 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Alan Stern is the 636th most popular astronomer (down from 629th in 2024), the 17,253rd most popular biography from United States (down from 17,048th in 2019) and the 134th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Alan Stern ranks 636 out of 644. Before him are David J. Asher, Gabriela González, Paulo R. Holvorcem, Timothy B. Spahr, R. Paul Butler, and Terry Lovejoy. After him are C. Michelle Olmstead, Zdeněk Moravec, Heidi Hammel, Richard Kowalski, Tetsuo Kagawa, and James Gall.

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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 17,260 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), Meredith Eaton (1974), and Becca Fitzpatrick (1979).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Alan Stern ranks 134. Before him are Jan Kleyna (2000), Geoffrey Marcy (1954), Jeff T. Alu (1966), Martha P. Haynes (1951), Kenneth J. Lawrence (null), and R. Paul Butler (1960). After him are C. Michelle Olmstead (1969), Heidi Hammel (1960), Amy Mainzer (1974), Natalie Batalha (1966), Robert S. McMillan (2000), and Amy Barger (1971).

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