Voyager

Ed Stone, JPL director and Voyager’s top scientist, dies at 88

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Ed Stone, the scientist who led NASA’s Voyager breakthrough mission to the outer planets for 50 years and directed the Jet Propulsion Laboratory when it landed its first rover on Mars, died Tuesday. He was 88. A physicist who got in on the ground floor of space exploration, Stone played a leading role in NASA’s … Read more

Ed Stone, who led NASA’s iconic Voyager project for 50 years, has died aged 88.

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Humanity has lost an interstellar pioneer. Ed Stone, who served as project scientist for NASA’s groundbreaking Voyager mission from 1972 to 2022, died on Sunday (June 9) at the age of 88. “Ed Stone was a pioneer who dared great things in space. He was a dear friend to all who knew him and a … Read more