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Message: <blockquote data-quote="imhotep" data-source="post: 30298038" data-attributes="member: 562115">Don't forget to remember Prof Edward C Stone who was the Former Director of JPL & the Voyager's Project Scientist. Sadly he passed away just a few months ago. RIPKnown for his steady leadership, consensus building, and enthusiasm for engaging the public in science, Stone left a deep impact on the space community.Edward C. Stone, former director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and longtime project scientist of the agency’s Voyager mission, died on June 9, 2024. He was age 88. He was preceded in death by his wife, Alice Stone, whom he met at the University of Chicago. They are survived by their two daughters, Susan and Janet Stone, and two grandsons.Stone also served as the David Morrisroe professor of physics and vice provost for special projects at Caltech in Pasadena, California, which last year established a new faculty position, the Edward C. Stone Professorship.Stone served on nine NASA missions as either principal investigator or a science instrument lead, and on five others as a co-investigator.  He had the distinction of being one of the few scientists involved with both the mission that has come closest to the Sun (NASA’s Parker Solar Probe) and the one that has traveled farthest from it (Voyager). Stone restructured several missions so that they could fly under these more stringent cost constraints, including overseeing a redesign of the Spitzer Space Telescope cooling system so that it was more cost effective and could still deliver high-impact science and stunning infrared images of the universe.Among Stone’s many awards, the National Medal of Science from President George H.W. Bush stands out as the most prominent. In 2019 he won the Shaw Prize in Astronomy, with an award of $1.2 million, for his leadership in the Voyager project, which, as the citation noted, “has over the past four decades, transformed our understanding of the four giant planets and the outer solar system, and has now begun to explore interstellar space.” He was also proud to have a middle school named after him in Burlington, Iowa, as an inspiration to young learners.He served the NASA for 50 years until his retirement in 2022.PS: I have made several posts on the Voyagers - Please refer to this one as well.<a href="https://elakiri.com/threads/how-the-voyager-aligns-its-antenna-towards-the-earth.2116029/" target="_blank">https://elakiri.com/threads/how-the-voyager-aligns-its-antenna-towards-the-earth.2116029/</a></blockquote>

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