NASA JPL Unveils the Dr. Edward Stone Exploration Trail - NASA
A series of plaques stretching through the heart of the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory offers highlights of the space explorer’s career and the VoyagerNaomi Hartono (NASA)
A series of plaques stretching through the heart of the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory offers highlights of the space explorer’s career and the VoyagerNaomi Hartono (NASA)
NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive hasAnthony Greicius (NASA)
NASA’s Voyager mission launched in the 1970s. Today, it’s making history as it conducts new science. But how are two spacecraft from the ’70s not just surviving, but thriving farther out in space than any other spacecraft has been before? A Little Mi…science.nasa.gov
The spacecraft uses its thrusters to stay pointed at Earth, but after 47 years in space some of the fuel tubes have become clogged.science.nasa.gov
Voyager Project Scientist Ed Stone and other mission team members gave a framed copy of an iconic Voyager 1 solar system image that includes Earth as a "Pale Blue Dot" to President George H.W. Bush on June 7, 1990.science.nasa.gov
The efforts should help extend the lifetimes of the agency’s interstellar explorers.Naomi Hartono (NASA)