So many times I remember thinking, ‘God, these guys on this Pluto mission, it’s just crazy what they’re going through.’ It was unreal. Either it was a bureaucratic mistake or some machination by somebody in the OMB who really didn’t like the Pluto mission. Credit: NASABR: In turn, the scientists who favored a Pluto mission stuck together—and became insurgents, almost subversives. Alan was a grad student, in his late twenties, when he first raised the idea of a Pluto mission. But I think Pluto has to be considered among the places in the solar system that are possible homes for life.

Source: Forbes April 27, 2018 21:00 UTC