Voyager Project Scientist Retires After 50 Years
Now-retired Voyager project scientist Ed Stone at a NASA news conference in September 2013 to announce Voyager 1’s arrival into interstellar space.
Credit: Carla Cioffi/NASA
Only one thing kept physicist Edward Stone from overseeing the end of the Voyager mission—the spacecraft themselves, still on the job 45 years after launch. Stone became project scientist for the Voyager mission five years before the twin probes were launched in 1977, taking advantage of a unique...
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