Alan Stern
Alan Stern
Head of NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto, Titanic explorer, and planetary scientist
- Rocket Ride: A Career in Space Exploration and Its Lessons for Leadership, Perseverance, and Achievement
- From leading the 2,500 men and women to create and execute a decade-long NASA mission to explore Pluto and the farthest worlds ever explored, to flying in space himself as a commercial astronaut, to leading NASA’s entire $6+ billion space science enterprise, to a South Pole expedition and a submersible dive 13,000 feet below the North Atlantic to the RMS Titanic, Dr. Alan Stern has had an incredibly inspiring career. In this stirring and oftentimes funny presentation, he recounts anecdotes from these and other exploration efforts he’s been involved in, stressing a common thread of perseverance needed to overcome obstacles, how one inspires large teams to high achievement, and the lessons for project and corporate leadership that he has learned from a career he dubs a “Rocket Ride”.
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