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Alan Alan Stern
Southwest Research Institute
Dr. Alan Stern is planetary scientist, a former NASA Science Mission Directorate Associate Administrator, a former board chair of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, and a former member of the National Science Board. In 2020, NASA selected Dr. Stern to fly the first NASA-funded researcher on a Virgin Galactic suborbital space mission. He has been on 29 NASA and ESA space science mission teams, 14 of which he was principal investigator (PI), including the nearly $1B New Horizons mission.
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Southwest Research Institute
2025 - Present
Southwest Research Institute Boulder
Scientist
1991 - 2025
Education
Doctorate
1989
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New Horizons’ Student Dust Counter: Measurements Beyond 61 AU Heliocentric Distance
PLANETARY RING, METEOROID, AND DUST POPULATIONS AND EFFECTS II ORAL
planetary sciences | 17 december 2025
Initial in-Flight Checkout Performance Results for the Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) on Europa Clipper
EXPLORING JUPITER’S ICY MOONS WITH THE NASA EUROPA CLIPPER MISSION AND THE ESA JUICE MISSION I POSTER
planetary sciences | 17 december 2025
New Horizons’ Encounter with the Heliospheric Boundary
ACROSS THE HELIOSPHERIC BOUNDARIES AND REGIONS: IN SITU OBSERVATIONS AND MODELING AS TOOLS FOR PROBING THE OUTER HELIOSPHERE II POSTER
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 16 december 2025
Lucy Mission Search Plans for Activity Around Its Jovian Trojan Flyby Targets
GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS OF ACTIVE SATELLITES AND SMALL BODIES POSTER
planetary sciences | 16 december 2025
Observations of Lyman-Beta Emission from the New Horizons Alice UV Spectrometer
ACROSS THE HELIOSPHERIC BOUNDARIES AND REGIONS: IN SITU OBSERVATIONS AND MODELING AS TOOLS FOR PROBING THE OUTER HELIOSPHERE II POSTER
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 16 december 2025
The Combined Solar-Wind and Solar-Energetic-Particles Distribution Function as Observed by the Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP) and Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation (PEPSSI) Investigations on New Horizons
ACROSS THE HELIOSPHERIC BOUNDARIES AND REGIONS: IN SITU OBSERVATIONS AND MODELING AS TOOLS FOR PROBING THE OUTER HELIOSPHERE I ORAL
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 15 december 2025
Predicting New Horizons’ Termination Shock Crossing based on Solar Wind long-term Variations
ACROSS THE HELIOSPHERIC BOUNDARIES AND REGIONS: IN SITU OBSERVATIONS AND MODELING AS TOOLS FOR PROBING THE OUTER HELIOSPHERE I ORAL
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 15 december 2025
A “Valley” in Heliospheric Energetic Particle Intensities and Implications for a New Horizons Encounter with the Solar Wind Termination Shock
DYNAMICS OF THE SOLAR WIND–INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM INTERACTION OF THE OUTER HELIOSPHERE THROUGH IN SITU OBSERVATIONS AND MODELING II ORAL
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 11 december 2024
Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2021
Citation
For pioneering work in the exploration of the outer Solar System and characterization of the lunar exosphere
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Eugene Shoemaker Lecture
Received December 2019