Voyager mission

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

‘Voyager 2 is still going well’

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It’s been several months since one of humanity’s most accomplished spacecraft, the Voyager 1 probe, stopped talking to us — and while they remain somewhat hopeful, Voyager mission scientists are preparing for the worst: a farewell. “Sad and frustrated to see the spacecraft still operating, but muted,” Bruce Waggoner, the Voyager mission assurance manager, told … Read more