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  1. Edward C. Stone. For other people named Edward Stone, see Edward Stone (disambiguation). 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). [ 1 ][ 2 ]

  2. Jun 14, 2024 · Edward Carroll Stone Jr. was born on Jan. 23, 1936, in Knoxville, Iowa, southeast of Des Moines, and grew up near Burlington, on the banks of the Mississippi River. His father, Edward Sr., owned a ...

  3. Jun 12, 2024 · Humanity has lost an interstellar pioneer. Ed Stone, who served as the project scientist for NASA's groundbreaking Voyager mission from 1972 to 2022, died on Sunday (June 9) at the age of 88. "Ed ...

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  4. Oct 25, 2022 · Edward Stone has retired as the project scientist for NASA’s Voyager mission a half-century after taking on the role. Stone accepted scientific leadership of the historic mission in 1972, five years before the launch of its two spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. Under his guidance, the Voyagers explored the four giant planets and became the ...

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  5. Jun 18, 2024 · Ed Stone (1936–2024), scientist who led NASA’s Voyager mission. By Eric San Juan June 18, 2024. 0. Ed Stone was a NASA scientist who led the agency’s pioneering Voyager missions and served ...

  6. Jun 13, 2024 · Obit Edward C Stone, the project scientist for NASA's Voyager mission from 1972 to 2022, has died. Dr. Ed Stone speaks on a panel at a New Horizons event in 2014 – credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani Born in Knoxville, Iowa, in 1936, Stone studied physics at Burlington Junior College.

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  8. Jul 17, 2014 · Ed Stone, project scientist of NASA's Voyager mission since 1972, and former director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, was honored with a lifetime achievement award on Wednesday from the American Astronautical Society. Stone received this honor "for sustained and extraordinary contributions to America's space programs ...