You would think plunging into deep space, to the outer banks of our solar system, would be a person's career ascension.
But for Alan Stern, principal investigator of the New Horizons mission that explored Pluto and more recently the Kuiper Belt, he also recently descended in a deep sea submersible to view the sunken remains of the RMS Titanic.
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But for Alan Stern, principal investigator of the New Horizons mission that explored Pluto and more recently the Kuiper Belt, he also recently descended in a deep sea submersible to view the sunken remains of the RMS Titanic.
Pluto explorer deep dives to the Titanic
For planetary scientist Alan Stern, witnessing the 20th century deep sea sarcophagus that is the Titanic serves up analogies to spaceflight.
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