• Ed Stone, head of Voyager mission, has died

    From AKAcastor@21:1/162 to All on Sat Jun 15 10:20:34 2024
    CBC News' Bob McDonald is reporting: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/ed-stone-head-of-the-voyager-mission-that-introduced-us-to-solar-system-s-outer-planets-has-died-1.7235038

    Ed Stone, head of the Voyager mission that introduced us to solar system's outer planets, has died

    The NASA project scientist who led the grandest and farthest tour humanity's ever taken in our solar system has died. Ed Stone, the former director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Voyager project scientist, was 88 years old when he died on June 9.

    For five decades, Stone led the Voyager mission, the longest robotic space mission in history and one of the greatest journeys of discovery in modern times.

    "How do you say goodbye to someone who helped make your destiny possible? Thank you, Ed, for opening the door for our celestial exploration. You will forever be remembered as your legacy lives on beyond the heliosphere," NASA said on its Voyager social media account, which is often written in the point-of-view of the spacecraft itself.

    Link to NASA's social media post on X.com: https://x.com/NASAVoyager/status/1800625349493162283

    The full article from Bob McDonald on CBC.com is a good read, with stories and photos from Ed Stone's life and his influence at NASA.

    https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/ed-stone-head-of-the-voyager-mission-that-introduced-us-to-solar-system-s-outer-planets-has-died-1.7235038


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  • From n2qfd@21:1/154 to AKAcastor on Sat Jun 15 18:43:19 2024
    Voyager II launched the summer I was born.
    There's something interesting with sharing a birthday, of sorts with a missions like this.

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