Collection: NASA Rocket Scientist

Pasadena Estate of Dr. Edward Stone

Edward C. Stone was an internationally known physicist who was inspired to enter the fields of planetary science and space exploration by the launch of Sputnik in 1957.  Since the launch of the two Voyager spacecraft in 1977, Stone had coordinated the efforts of 11 teams of scientists in their investigations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.  Highlights of his decade of leadership included Galileo's five-year orbital mission to Jupiter, the launch of Cassini to Saturn, the launch of Mars Global Surveyor and the successful Mars Pathfinder landing in 1997.  He became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1984, and received both the NASA Distinguished Service Medal and National Medal of Science.