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Carl Edward Sagan ( / ˈseɪɡən /; SAY-gən; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, and science communicator.
May 27, 2024 · Carl Sagan, American astronomer and science writer. A popular and influential figure in the United States, he was controversial in scientific, political, and religious circles for his views on extraterrestrial intelligence.
Carl Sagan lobbied NASA for ten years to command the Voyager 1 spacecraft to turn its camera homeward to take one last picture from beyond the orbits of Neptune and Pluto. On Valentine’s Day in 1990 it did so, revealing our world to appear as but a single pixel from that distance.
Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996) played a leading role in the American space program from its very beginning. He was a consultant and adviser to NASA beginning in the 1950s -- he briefed the Apollo astronauts before their flights to the Moon.
Nov 22, 2021 · Astronomer Carl Sagan, called "America's most effective salesman of science" by Time magazine, spent much of his career translating technical scientific explanations into something...
In this extract from the classic BBC science documentary Where Is Everybody?, Dr Carl Sagan - an astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Assistant Professor of Astronomy at...
Oct 18, 2023 · The investigators, led by planetary scientist and broadcaster Carl Sagan, had searched for evidence of life on Earth that could be detected from space. The results, published 30 years ago this...
Mar 16, 2014 · He was a celebrity, scientist, and star of the original Cosmos, but who was the real Carl Sagan?
Carl Sagan was Earth's leading advocate for the greatest adventure in human history: missions of discovery to worlds beyond our own.
Nov 9, 2017 · Sagan—astronomer, creator of the “ golden record ” messages to any aliens who might find the Voyager space probes, creator and host of Cosmos, novelist, arguably one of the best-known...
