Longtime Voyager Project Scientist, JPL Director Ed Stone Dies

Ed Stone

Credit: Carla Cioffi/NASA
Ed Stone was 36-year-old space scientist when NASA tapped him in 1972 to lead an ambitious quest to visit Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune with the two Voyager spacecraft. Stone, who led the Voyager science team until his retirement in 2022, died on June 9 at age 88, but the Voyager probes, now...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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