Edward C. Stone

Born

January 23, 1936

Died

June 9, 2024 (aged 88)

Known as

physicist, research fellow, assistant professor, professor, director

Edward Carroll Stone Jr. was an American space physicist, professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology, and director of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) from 1991 to 2001. He was the project scientist of the Voyager program, which sent two spacecraft to the outer Solar System's giant planets and became the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space.

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