Alan Stern

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 rockets in 2013 or 2014. He writes he will be among the flyers and will make at least four trips to space. He has been at the institute since 1991 and lives in Longmont, Colo.