Science Mission Directorate

Ed Stone, who led NASA’s iconic Voyager project for 50 years, dies at 88

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Dr. Sarah Adams

Humanity has lost an interstellar pioneer. Ed Stone, who served as the project scientist for NASA’s groundbreaking Voyager mission from 1972 to ...

Houston company to send cremations to the moon, Navajo Nation objects

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Dr. Sarah Adams

United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket undergoes testing at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The rocket is scheduled to launch ...

Mary Cleave, the first woman to fly on NASA’s space shuttle after Challenger disaster, dies at 76

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Dr. Sarah Adams

Mary Cleave, the NASA astronaut who in 1989 became the first woman to fly on a space shuttle mission after the Challenger ...