Ed Stone, who led JPL for a decade and worked on the La Cañada Flintridge institution's Voyager mission for five decades, has died. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) Ed Stone, the scientist who guided ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Even so momentous a discovery did not mean that the likes of Synnott had leave simply to present himself at Stone’s office, so the ...

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Voyager is NASA’s longest-running mission, and Ed Stone was the leader and the face of the program for decades. Stone, who died June 9 at the age of 88, led NASA’s Voyager program for 50 years. As its ...

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 ...

A series of plaques stretching through the heart of the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory offers highlights of the space explorer’s career and the Voyager mission he led. Family members, colleagues, ...

In November 1980, Voyager 1 snapped this image of Saturn and two of the gas giant's moons. Credit: NASA On a visit to The Colbert Report in 2013, the eponymous host asked NASA scientist Ed Stone if he ...

Ed Stone, the scientist who guided NASA’s breakthrough Voyager mission to the outer planets for 50 years and led the Jet Propulsion Laboratory when it landed its first rover on Mars, died Tuesday. He ...

Ed Stone, former director of JPL and project scientist for the Voyager mission, in front of a mock-up of one of the Voyager spacecraft. The golden record is visible over his left shoulder. Credit - ...

Technically, Ed Stone wasn’t in sales. He was a scientist who had been in the space race almost as long as there had been a space race. But he also had a superpower: He could talk about science in a ...