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Article: SPACE ECO.(NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory director Edward Stone)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
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- June 26, 2000
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As director of Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Edward Stone has overseen some of NASA's greatest successes -- and worst failures -- of the past decade
EDWARD Stone has been at the forefront of the American space program almost since its inception in 1958. A physicist by training, he came to the California Institute of Technology (which administrates NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory) in 1961, and has been the chief scientist on nine NASA spacecraft missions.
In 1991, Stone became director of JPL and ever since has been spearheading the institution's sometimes-rocky transition toward less expensive and more frequent planetary missions. These have ...