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Edward Carroll Stone (January 23, 1936 – June 9, 2024) was an American space scientist, professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology, and director of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
Edward C. Stone was an internationally known physicist who served as project scientist for the Voyager program from 1972 to 2022. As a graduate student at the University Chicago, he was inspired to enter the fields of planetary science and space exploration by the launch of Sputnik in 1957.
Jun 11, 2024 · Ed Stone, who led NASA's longest-running mission to explore the solar system and beyond, passed away on June 9, 2024. He was 88 years old and a friend, mentor, and colleague to many in the space community.
Jun 11, 2024 · Edward C. Stone, a pioneer of space physics and planetary astronomy, passed away on June 9 at age 88. He led NASA's Voyager missions, oversaw the Keck Observatory, and served as JPL director and TMT executive director.
Jun 14, 2024 · Edward C. Stone, the visionary physicist who dispatched NASA’s Voyager spacecraft to run rings around our solar system’s outer planets and, for the first time, to venture beyond to unravel...
Jul 10, 2024 · Edward Stone was a pre-eminent space scientist with an exceptional record of leading space missions and building ground-based astronomical facilities. The public face of NASA’s Voyager...
Jun 11, 2024 · Edward C. Stone, former director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and longtime project scientist of the Voyager mission, passed away on June 9, 2024. He was 88 years old. In this 2018 video, Stone talks about the Voyager 2 spacecraft reaching interstellar space, six years after Voyager 1 reached the same milestone.
