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Alan Stern has not been averse to controversy:

https://www.universetoday.com/21468/ex-nasa-associate-admini...

https://www.space.com/2791-pluto-demoted-longer-planet-highl...

George Bernard Shaw said “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

I remember reading his book and finding him extremely boisterous. Yes, the mission is amazing but so too is the size of his ego.

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