Dr. Alan Stern, a planetary scientist and associate vice president in SwRI’s Space Sector, has been named a Fellow of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). SAN ANTONIO — January 8. 2026 — Southwest ...

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SCIENCE CHIEF: NASA has named S. Alan Stern the new head of the agency's Science Mission Directorate, effective April 2. Stern will succeed Mary Cleave, who is retiring. Stern joins NASA from the ...

SAN ANTONIO -- February 19, 2018 -- Dr. Alan Stern has been selected to receive the National Award of Nuclear Science & History from the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History. Stern, associate ...

On July 14, 2015, all eyes were on Pluto. Alan Stern’s (PhDAstro) new book, co-authored with David Grinspoon, is Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto. It tells the story of the ...

Alan Stern is the co-author of of the recently released “Chasing New Horizons, Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto,” and also an engineer and planetary scientist, who has held executive roles at ...

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Vice president of Southwest Research Institute Alan Stern (PhDAstro’89) is leading a program at the institute to enable researchers to fly in space on Virgin Galactic and XCOR Aerospace suborbital ...