Ed Stone, the scientist who spent 50 years leading NASA’s groundbreaking Voyager mission to the outer planets and led the Jet Propulsion Laboratory when it landed its first rover on Mars, died Tuesday. He was 88. A physicist who started on the ground floor of space exploration, Stone played a leading role in NASA missions … Read more
Stone took the lead in tailoring the peer-review process to the faster pace of the mission’s planetary encounters: In the early afternoon, after the data was collected, teams of scientists decided what they thought would be their best results for that day they were and held firm. their conclusions for feedback to the entire science … Read more
Within a billion years, NASA’s Voyager 1 probe will have reached the opposite side of the Milky Way disk to the Sun. By the time it arrives, the sun will have evaporated all of Earth’s oceans, making it habitable. As a result, NASA may not be on hand to celebrate this remarkable milestone in the … Read more