Ed Stone

Godspeed, Ed Stone – the man who showed us the solar system

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Ed Stone, former director of JPL and project scientist for the Voyager mission, in front of a mock-up of one of the Voyager spacecraft. The gold plate is visible over his left shoulder. Credit – NASA/JPL Caltech STeve Synnott never forgot the day Ed Stone made him name a moon. It was 1980, and Synnott … Read more

Ed Stone, JPL director and top scientist on Voyager mission, dies at age 88

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