NASA project scientist, Ed Stone, has died at the age of 88. He was at the helm of what's been dubbed 'The Grand Tour' of our outer solar sy
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.
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