Edward Stone had an amazing career as Project Scientist for the Voyager mission. Stone says the spacecraft have succeeded beyond expectation.
Ed Stone, Voyager Mission Project Scientist.
Voyager gave us close-up colour pictures of the outer planets that brought them to life. In fact, the pair of them took over 33,000 images of just Jupiter and its moons.,” and it’s the last image Voyager 1 took before its cameras were turned off forever. It was Carl Sagan’s idea to point the spacecraft back toward Earth and take the picture.Ed Stone was the Voyager Project Scientist through all of this, and now he’s announced his retirement.
Stone was a busy man and was involved in many other missions besides Voyager.
“I was on the Colbert Report to talk about what I think of as humankind’s greatest—and certainly most extensive—journey of exploration, and I certainly didn’t expect the host to hand me an award,” said Stone. “That surprise on my face was real.” Ed Stone, second from the left, and other members of the Voyager team posing with a model of the spacecraft in 1977 when the pair of spacecraft were launched. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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