Voyager Project Scientist Retires After 50 Years

Now-retired Voyager project scientist Ed Stone

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...
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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