Space exploration pioneer Bruce Murray died Thursday after a long illness. He was 81.
Murray served as director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1976 to 1982. Even with the extraordinary successes of that period-- the Viking probes to Mars and the Voyagers to the outer planets-- the future of planetary exploration was in question. Murray was one of those who successfully argued for that future. Towards securing that future, he co-founded, along with Carl Sagan and Louis Friedman, The Planetary Society in 1979.
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