Ed Stone, the scientist who guided NASA’s groundbreaking Voyager mission to the outer planets for 50 years and led the Jet Propulsion Laboratory when it landed the first rover on Mars, died Tuesday. He was 88 years old. A physicist on the ground floor of space exploration, Stone played a leading role in NASA missions… Read More »
When a malfunction occurs in the loneliest spacecraft in the universe, it’s not just a matter of turning it off and on again. Voyager 1, the first human-made object to leave the Solar System in 2012, went silent in November, meaning no science or engineering data would be sent back to Earth. The probe was… Read More »
The Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched after Voyager 2.NASA/JPL-Caltech/KSC Alan Cummings has worked on the Voyager mission for over 50 years. Since their launch, the two Voyager spacecraft have made groundbreaking discoveries that will keep Cummings busy. Cummings thinks they will continue traveling for another billion years. Alan Cummings, one of the scientists, told Business… Read More »